Is "free will" really free?

Originally Posted by crakjak

Our capacity to choose or our free choices, particularly the bad ones, are obstacles that God must work around as He brings His loving purposes to fruition.

I don't agree that God must "work around" anything. His power and sovereignty are absolute.

We are not free in our choices to thwart God's purpose to redeem all of His creation (the Arminan view).

The Arminian view is that we are free to thwart God's purpose and that God will not interfere with that freedom.

To do so would be to deny that God is almighty in the sense that He is able accomplish His purpose.

Not only that but it makes man the final arbiter of his own salvation and, thus, makes man sovereign over God.

In other words God has to concede the majority of humans to hell in order have enough to fill heaven. What rubbish!

God concedes nothing! That He chooses to save even one person is an act of the greatest mercy.