Francis A. Schaeffer on Human Freedom
The God Who Is There, (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1968), p131.
The historic Christian position is that man's dilemma has a moral
cause. God, being nondetermined, created man as a nondetermined person.
This is a difficult idea for anyone thinking in twentieth-century terms
because most twentieth-century thinking sees man as determined. He is
determined either by chemical factors, as the Marquis de Sade held and
Francis Crick is trying to prove, or by psychological factors, as Freud
and others have suggested, or by sociological factors, such as B.F.
Skinner holds. In these cases, or as a result of a fusion of them, man
is considered to be programmed. If this is the case, then man is not
the tremendous thing the Bible says he is, made in the image of God as
a personality who can make a free first choice. Because God created a
true universe outside of himself (or as an extension of his essence),
there is a true history which exists, man as created in God's image is
therefore a significant man in a significant history, who can choose to
obey the commandments of God and love him, or revolt against him.
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