“Either we are in the snare of the devil or held captive in the will of God as you said.
Is there some back and forth from captive of devil to God in our not-free choices?”
First you need to go back and define “free will,” or at least defend it from my definition, before you start talking about “free choices.” I don’t see how you can come to these conclusions with anything I have written, except perhaps if this was your conclusion from the very beginning.
My only conclusion is that Calvinism is an intellectual construct that fails theologically and in human experience - and that it results in a concept of God that is antithetical to what Jesus taught.
Other than that, it’s a really good system.
:)
So I’m exploring the dichotomy between what Calvinism teaches and what reality is.