Saying that man does not have free will is total nonsense and smacks of the false doctrine of pre-destination. Paul DID have free will on the road to Damascus. He CHOSE to get up and go into the city and follow God's direction - he certainly could have chosen not to, just as Adam and Eve chose NOT to obey God.  God is not willing that any should perish and gives to every man a free will to choose. Sure, God can "harden the heart" of man - just as he did in the case of Pharoh, but Pharoh only did what every SINNER does who keeps ignoring the Holy Spirit! His conscience gets SEARED like a hot iron and God finally says enough and OUT he goes - to the lake of fire. And pul-eeze!  SPARE me the junk about the devil being pre-destined. Satan is a spirit and had free will. He chose to rebel against God. We can choose to sin or not sin. All the angels who sinned joined Satan of their own free will - no one forced them! While God is in ultimate control and knows the past, present and future, no one will stand before God on the day of judgment and use a puny excuse like "predestination" to talk his way out of the lake of fire. There were some cults that formed right after the great reformation who believed in predestination. Since they believed it didn't matter how you lived or what you did - you were already predestined to be saved or lost, most of them lived like the devil and committed every heinous act imaginable because they thought it would not make a difference! This is the same song-and-dance that the devil has been feeding people for 6000 years and they are still swallowing it. This is kinda like the Italian mafia going out and gunning down people, then going to confession the next Sunday thinking just because they confess the sins to a priest, they will be completely exonerated. What nonsense! There have always been people who will use ANY EXCUSE to commit any sort of sin they want believing that they are going to get away with it. God is not mocked. He has FREE will too!
 
Rene