The main problem I have with mainline evangelicals obsession with "Free will" is not only the problem of it springing from old church Heresies like Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism and Armininism but that God has refuted both of the ideas repeatedly in Scripture: that the will is "free" from the influence of God and that the "will" is the primary tool of man in attaining salvation.
Just a few verses as reminder to you today:
John 1
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Romans 9
For God says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
In comparison to God
Philippians 2
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
And what is God's will and purpose?
Eph 1
God predestined us for adoption as sons (and daughters) through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of God's will, to the praise of God's glorious grace, with which God has blessed us in the Beloved (JC). In Jesus we have redemption through Jesus' blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of God's grace, which God lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of God's will, according to God's purpose, which God set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in God, things in heaven and things on earth.
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