Do you have free will? 
Are you bound to fate?
What does God have to say about it all?
Before we come to the first theological topic of sin in Philip Melanchthon's Commonplaces, we will deal with human powers and free will. This is not only a topic that was of great importance at the time of the Reformation, but it also speaks to our time. And we'll discover that the answer to the question of free will is: it depends on how you look at it.

Do you have free will? Are you bound to fate? What does God have to say about it all? Before we come to the first theological topic of sin in Philip Melanchthon's Commonplaces, we will deal with human powers and free will. This is not only a topic that was of great importance at the time of the Reformation, but it also speaks to our time. And we'll discover that the answer to the question of free will is: it depends on how you look at it.

On Human Powers and Free Will

So it happened that while I slept or while I drank a glass of Wittenberg beer with my friend Philip and with Amsdorf, the papacy was weakened as it never was before by the action of any prince or emperor. I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.… I let the Word do its work!” -Martin Luther

Here you will find a pairing a genuine Lutheran theology with occasional thoughts on what Luther called "the best drink known to man."

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So it happened that while I slept or while I drank a glass of Wittenberg beer with my friend Philip and with Amsdorf, the papacy was weakened as it never was before by the action of any prince or emperor. I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.… I let the Word do its work!” -Martin Luther Here you will find a pairing a genuine Lutheran theology with occasional thoughts on what Luther called "the best drink known to man."

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