The only solution to this kind of necessity is the proclamation. That is, if God rules all things by absolute necessity, then our only recourse is to attend to what he does do. The solution to the problem of the absolute is absolution! There, the immutable God does “what is necessary”! God is “determined” to have us back! But we can see that only in Christ Jesus. Apart from Jesus, we are on our own.
Permit us to be assertors, to be devoted to assertions and delight in them, while you stick to your Skeptics and Academics till Christ calls you too. The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, and it is not doubts or mere opinions that he has written on our hearts, but assertions more sure and certain than life itself and all experience. (LW33:24)
Links: Handouts https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TDY5v1OL1jdGU4LLKsTj_6v_R0FSPIhs&usp=drive_fs The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage https://amzn.to/3WDc6lN The Bondage of the Will https://amzn.to/4aCjrbg
