Ten Reasons for Compatibilism

1. The Bible teaches that God is meticulously sovereign.

2. The Bible teaches that we have a free will in the sense that we choose what we most want
and that we are morally accountable to God, but nowhere does it teach that we have a free will
in the sense that we can make equally alternative choices.

3. The Bible never says that God gives up even a sliver of his sovereignty in order to make room
for our free will to make equally alternative choices, and the Bible never says that we are free in
the sense that God does not ultimately or decisively determine what we freely choose.

First, the common experience of deliberation assumes that our choices are
undetermined. All of this assumes that it really is up to us how we will decide.
Second, it seems intuitively and immediately evident that many of our actions are up to
us in the sense that when faced with a decision, both (or more) options are within our
power to choose....
Third, libertarians take very seriously the widespread judgment that we are morally
responsible for our actions and that moral responsibility requires freedom.

4. The Bible teaches as a proverbial truth that God’s meticulous sovereignty and human
freedom are simultaneously true.

5. The Bible teaches that God’s meticulous sovereignty and human freedom are simultaneously
true in the crucifixion of Christ.

6. The Bible teaches that God’s meticulous sovereignty and human freedom are simultaneously
true in the writing of Scripture.

7. The Bible teaches that God’s meticulous sovereignty and human freedom are simultaneously
true in the perseverance of believers.

8. The Bible teaches that God knows what we will freely choose.

9. The Bible teaches that God himself does not have a free will in the sense that he can make
equally alternative choices.

10. The Bible teaches that God’s glorified people in the eternal state will not have a free will in
the sense that we can make equally alternative choices.