No Calvinist denies the freedom of the human will, and no knowledgeable Calvinst would say human beings are just robots, so please stop resorting to strawman arguments. And above all, don't resort to name-calling and ad-hominem attacks. Every Calvinist believes we have a free will, only it's not absolutely free from God's decree--that's the only point we make. How can this be demonic? This is not to say that we act like robots in our relationship with God. Far from it! We have a genuine creaturely will that chooses between good and evil regurarly, and in compatibility to God's decree. Notice, however, that I called it a "creaturely" will, which means it is limited in "freedom." However, by making man's will a "condition" for salvation, you deny grace alone salvation and bring in merits into salvation. Salvation looks more like this: I, like Lazarus am spiritually blind and dead, and my will is infected by sin. But out of the blue Jesus comes and says to me "Rise!", and I rise. Then this Jesus gives me a new will that is no longer dead in sin, and by that new will I believe in him, and then by the means of that faith/belief I am justified." Hence, regeneration comes before "choosing" Jesus. He opens my heart and replaces it with a new one before I can "choose" to be saved, just like Lazarus, when he was dead, couldn't "choose" anything--he just woke up from death to life amazed at Jesus' grace. Only in this Calvinistic view is salvation truly by "grace alone."
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