That’s basically what I understand from scripture as well. To me that means we have no free will in matters of salvation sanctification and so on. I do think we have agency in our daily practices and routines I.e. prayer or reading Gods word etc.
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As a side note, we’re seeing increasing alignment in the agnostic sciences that free will does not exist as an inherent quality of our nature. This isn’t exactly new, it’s been unpacked by the likes of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and many others, but it’s becoming a foundational space in recent decades.
The watered-down contemporary take seems to be: “No, you don’t have free will but it doesn’t matter anyway.”
