The human is by nature of a contingent will.

Because humanity is contingent, there is a finite number of possible scenarios in which they can exist. Therefore their choices are limited to pre-established, finite possibilities. It is from these pre-established dispositions that they ‘choose’ with the will. Because they are restricted and thus choose according to a certain existential pre-determination, their context and possibility of choice is of a certain exclusive character. This exclusive character is their nature. Therefore what a person chooses is indeed of themself, and what is of themself is of their nature and therefore exclusive. In this way any choice excludes the other possibilities within their nature and leaves them with a more restricted nature than before: slavery to sin.

In God all things are possible and the choice to continue to exist in this possibility is the choice to not choose anything but what is already given in God. When humanity chose something finite which was not already given, they chose necessarily to have an exclusive nature whose character was that without the infinite possibility of God’s provision, i.e., death necessarily. So the choices now available to the will are exclusive to death.

The solution of Christ is that he shares of the non-contingent life of God; the first premise does not apply. Though he took on contingent flesh, dependent on his father also spiritually, althewhile he remained non-contingent God. He has a nature whose exclusive character is God and so is the only one able to give to the contingent person God’s life by exchanging a nature exclusive to death for the nature exclusive to life as the non-contingent son of God in contingent humanity.

When a person receives this life of God by faith in Jesus they have all the possibilities that are in the infinite God, with infinity defined as God’s will; and they rest in them, not grabbing one or the other, but trusting in him who provides all. So then they are free and have a freedom in regards to all things, yet the very joy of that freedom is essentially in the rest and not in the exercise of choice (which would in fact leave the person in a more exclusive position) but in the exercise of submission to the non-contingent will of God.