Forde quote

“As Luther expressed it directly to Erasmus, “In order to keep “free-will” standing, you must invoke a synechdoche, to wrest all that is said in the scriptures against ungodly men and limit it to man’s brutal part only so that his rational and truly human part may be preserved”. The part implies the whole. The law implies a power to fulfill it. “Ought” implies “can”. All of these are the kind of operating assumptions that have been the very stuff of “modern” theology, and skeptical philosophy for that matter. When the limit is not drawn properly between law and gospel-that is drawn eschatalogically-the limit must be placed elsewhere, such as between one’s higher reason or will and one’s lower animal body.”