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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · sin, guilt, and repentance · satan contributes to temptation · providence and divine governance · original fall · free will
Usually: argument (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1)
“Speaking generally, it appears more reasonable and more fitting to say that obedience to God's precepts is always possible, even for the unregenerate; that the grace of God is always resistible, even in those most holy, and that freedom is exempt not only from constraint but also from necessity, although it be never without infallible certainty or without inclining determination.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von, Theodicy · precept
He argues that humans were created upright and free, but after the fall become voluntary slaves to sin and Satan; temptation comes from one’s lust, though Satan contributes by blinding unbelief.
pleases him so to be; he is a voluntary slave through his evil lust. Thus it is that free will and will in bondage are one and the same thing. 278. 'Let no man say, I am tempted of God'; 'but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed' (Jas. i. 13, 14). And Satan contributes thereto. He 'blindeth the minds of them which believe not' (2 Cor. iv. 4). But man is delivered up to the Devil by…