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Free Will

Faith Q&A › Metropolitan Youssef › Our Lord and the Faith › Free Will

The question

Please comment on the issues of will and desire and how they relate.

The answer

Two helpful resources are located here:
http://www.suscopts.org/messages/lectures/christlecture2.pdf

http://www.saint-mary.net/books/On%20The%20Unity%20of%20Christ%20by%20St.%20Cyril%20of%20Alexandria.pdf

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