Does man have a libertarian free will?

If someone is at peace with their sin, that's an indication they are not a real believer.

I appreciate your response but I must press the issue, and I do so in a manner which may be incorrectly deemed by some to be extremely disrespectful and may get me banned from this site.

Do you believe that two unmarried, unassuming people who love one another and are sexually active are not true believers? What about individuals who watch pornography? Does this disqualify someone from being a true believer? How does all this coincide with different concepts of free will?

This statement makes me want to join a Reformed Church...sigh

I agree with @PennEd on this, no one can muster up faith, if faith is defined as a volitional response.

I appreciate your response but I must press the issue, and I do so in a manner which may be incorrectly deemed by some to be extremely disrespectful and may get me banned from this site.

Do you believe that two unmarried, unassuming people who love one another and are sexually active are not true believers? What about individuals who watch pornography? Does this disqualify someone from being a true believer? How does all this coincide with different concepts of free will?

If they are believers, they are not behaving according to their identity in Christ. Believers sometimes fall into grievous sins, even for a long season.

I agree that you cannot save yourself. Man lacks the perfect righteousness that God requires of us. Man does have some good in himself and Jesus told some wicked men that very thing.

Mt 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Totally unable to save oneself is true but totally unable to respond to the gospel is not true. Salvation is a gift given to unworthy souls because God loves and has mercy upon them while they are in their sin.

1Jo 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Compassion and mercy must have a place in Calvinism or it is merely a cheap knockoff of the true gospel.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

If someone is at peace with their sin, that's an indication they are not a real believer. A real believer mourns his sinfulness.

Reformed - a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.

Here's a series on Reformed theology, if you care to watch it:

https://www.ligonier.org/learn/series/what_is_reformed_theology/

I would also suggest reading a book on church history. Justo Gonzales has a good one.

However, if you just want to crack jokes, without educating yourself so you know common words used within Christianity, continue on

Free will--the ability to choose how to act. : the ability to make choices that are not controlled by fate or God.

Right here is the crux of the matter. Ppl do not like the thought of being not in control. It's the proverbial "my way or the highway" mentality. I am reminded by this ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’[Luke 19:14]

If they had a child out playing in the street and a car was barreling towards their child, to remain consistent with their free will theology, they wouldn't run and snatch the child away. They should stand there and tell their child, "Honey, there is a car barreling towards you! Please get out of the road!" The child then yells "No!" and keeps on playing. Over and over again, they keep pleading with their child to get out of harm's way, but to no avail. They keep telling them, "Child, I really, really do love you. I want the very best for you and want to come to me and get out of harm's way. But I will not force you to get out of the road. It's up to you to choose what you want to do. I will not force you to come to me. I have a better way for you, but its up to you to choose." Then all of a sudden, SPLAT!!

They stand before a judge and tell them how they handled that situation. Do you think that judge will tell them they did the prudent thing? Absolutely not! He gives them 20+ years in a state pen...if they're lucky.

Theirs was a simple observation unworthy of your ridicule.

Thank you so much for letting us know you pay no attention to what free will, (willpower) consists of.

In actuality, your child scenario would occur in the Reformed TULIP Theology precisely so.

The driver is Totally Depraved if they see a child in the street and let their car continue at speed toward said child. The parent of said child would be Totally Depraved for not paying attention to the Totally Depraved child they let play in the street.
Therefore, in the SPLAT aftermath, the driver would be arrested for reckless driving, inattentive driving, vehicular manslaughter. While the parent would be arrested for depraved indifference homicide, child neglect resulting in death.
They'd both likely end up in prison were there just a few of their peers on the jury, in the parents case that would mean, parents. In which case, the world is saved!
From one reckless inattentive driver child killer. And from one unfit parent unable to have more children to not pay attention to.

If humans do not have free will–the ability to choose–then actions are morally and religiously insignificant.

Odd, I thought by your posts that you were a member of the Reformed church.

If humans do not have free will–the ability to choose–then actions are morally and religiously insignificant.

Just so we are clear, I do believe people can respond to the Gospel, the response is not an act of the will.

So on that count I am in neither the free will group nor the TULIP group.

What is your definition of free will?

Does mankind, whom the Bible says is "under sin" (meaning under the power of sin), and slaves to sin, have autonomous, libertarian free will?

No, he does not. He is a slave to sin, and that is not freedom. His nature has been corrupted by virtue of being in Adam.

Yet, he is still responsible for his sinfulness and will be punished eternally for it, outside of Christ.

I provided the example of a fish in a pond. The fish can swim around in the pond all he wants, but he is not free to live on land. That is because he is a fish by nature, and lives in water. Same with the fallen man. His nature is corrupted, and he cannot make godly choices until his nature is changed. His life revolves around life in the kingdom of darkness; he does not dwell in the kingdom of light. His world does not have God as the center of his existence.

Within the kingdom of darkness, there are individuals who practice greater civic virtue, but none are righteous and do good.

Read Romans 1-3...in fact, read the whole book of Romans

By the way, God can rightly condemn all mankind, simply because of Adam's sin, and Romans 5 says that all are condemned by Adam's sin.

Of course, that doesn't please free-willers as they will scream "that isn't fair"...but that's what the Bible says. Just like believers are identified with Christ and his righteousness, all of mankind in Adam is identified with Adam and his sin. It isn't fair that the believer benefits from Jesus and his righteousness, but I don't think too many (other than Pelagians) have an issue with that.

Where can I read more about the theological concept of libertarian free will?

I know it as a term of political philosophy, but have never heard it applied to theology.

"Free willers."
I wonder if you feel good thinking those who don't accept your theology are damned by it?

Where can I read more about the theological concept of libertarian free will?

I know it as a term of political philosophy, but have never heard it applied to theology.

Your scenario blames the one true victim, the parent. There’s no blame given to the driver or the un-adhering child.