Which brings us to nature

The debate we see often in secular psychology circles is the debate between nurture and nature, and which of those drives us as people.  In Christian terms we talk about the difference between the flesh and the spirit.  I've have always felt that Calvinism, at it's heart, reverts man back to naturalistic state, that it divests religion of the supernatural and pushes us back into a world of predetermined, programmed creatures who cannot divert from their programming.  Some how "unless the Spirit draw them" came to mean that we are incapable of being drawn to God unless He is, in that moment calling to us.  But is God ever not calling to us?  Does He ever not want fellowship with us?  My experience has been that all mankind feels the constant pull of the divine.  That the Father is always pulling at us to be greater, to move past the natural.

Did He just create our body, or did He also create our soul?  Were we created with the innate ability to seek out our creator, or is it something only activated in specific people once we are "chosen"?

The biggest argument I see against predestination are highways.   They are paved.   Once they were paths, but some one made them straighter, cleared out brush and debris, they covered them with concrete and asphalt, all to make it more comfortable.  Monkey's don't do this.  Heck, for all their hype about opposable thumbs, they never even got around to getting central air conditioning.

In fact, lets take man off the earth.  What does the place look like without us? It looks like it always looked, minus the changes in the weather shifting around migration patterns, the world continues along a predetermined course, covered in wildlife that never builds an skyscraper.

But man does.  We have been given authority, dominion, if you will, over all the earth.  We can change it, shape it, destroy it.  We among all creation redefine creation according to our comfort and hubris.  It's our sandbox, and we're the only ones with the shovel.  I find it comforting.  If free will didn't exist, you'd never know, as you'd lack the capability to question it, to feel it, to describe it.  It would be like trying to imagine a color you'd never seen.

So I guess my question now is, how much authority do I have, and what do I plan to do with it?