Quote Originally Posted by alanmolstad View Post
Man has free will, and God is Sovereign.


I tell a story to people when the topic of free will comes up, as a way to help them see how you can have God forcing Pharaoh to do things, and yet at the same time allowing Pharaoh to have free will to make up his own mind what he wanted to do.


Think of being a p***enger on a great ship at sea.
You have the freedom to walk around the ship in a clockwise direction, or in the anti-clockwise direction.
Yet although you have this freedom you are still just a helpless p***enger on board a great ship that is always under the firm control of the Skipper.

So both your freedom (freewill) and the Skipper's control of the ship (God's Sovereignty) work hand-in-hand together without getting each other's way.