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“Bunk” is an opinion. The readers will decide which theology is “bunk.”

People are having their lives transformed in a positive way by reading
HIS ACHIEVEMENT ARE WE by James Coram. This definitely will not happen to anyone who tries to retain some of the glory for their salvation for themselves.

http://concordant.org/expohtml/HisAchievement/index.html

THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO THEOLOGIES

SELF-HELP THEOLOGY:

Attempted salvation by the works of properly cooperating with God according to your understood interpretation of what the Bible means by that.

CONCORDANT THEOLOGY:

Unfailing salvation by Jesus Christ alone Who’s Spirit causes us to properly cooperate with God according to the perfect timing of His eonian plan for each unique individual.

Two ethical opinions that are used to argue free will are:

1. “If we didn’t have free will we would be like robots.”
In answer to this claim I would like to point out that we do share something in common with robots, and that is causality. Everything we believe and do is the product of a cause, and that cause consists of the strongest influence that is being brought to bear on us at any given moment.

2. “If we didn’t have a free will, none of our choices would have moral value.”
In answer to this claim I would like to say that this argument is rendered irrelevant by the stubborn fact that we always, without exception, choose in the direction of the strongest influence, every time, even though there may be other influences that are almost just as strong. It is absolutely impossible to choose what we do not prefer. We always, without exception, choose in the direction of the strongest influence, every time.

Neither the "value" nor the "reality" of "morality" is changed by the presence of causality. Neither is love nor "personhood" diminished by causality.