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Podcast: Wrestling with Theology
Episode: Confessional Corner: Sin, Free Will & Good Works (Ap XVIII-XX)
Description: The human will has freedom in the choice of works and things that reason understands by itself. To a certain extent reason can display public righteousness or a righteousness of works. (Ap XVIII 70)
The adversaries accept Article XIX. In it we confess that only God and He alone has created all nature and preserves all things that exist. Yet the cause of sin is the will of the devil and people turning away from God, according to the say of Christ about the devil, "When he lies, he speaks out of his own character"...