free will
that humans have free will is a precondition of their capacity to respond to the call of the gospel and to be enriched by love. However, the extent of this freedom is daily called in question first by the power of sin which is understood an enslaving, and secondly by the allpowerfulness of God. According to the Christian gospel, thanks to God being God as met in Jesus of Nazareth, the constraining hold of sin is defeated and so also is any thought that divine omnipotence is not desirous of the willing responses of individuals.