Phillipians 2:13

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure."

The word, "to will" is the greek thelo (Strongs 2309) which has to do literally with the exercising of the will.

God works in the true believer to incline the believer to WILL and thus consequently to DO of God's pleasure. That is why the true believer rightly gives God all the glory and all the praise for anything the true believer might do in his life that might align at all with the will of God.

How can it be then, that UNSAVED man can do things that are "pleasing to God" all by himself, without the inworking of God, as we are told repeatedly man can do and does do in IHGWSM?

I am vexed beyond words about this; hence the somewhat off-beat (though some might say not offbeat for me) posts of the last two days. I had to get my mind off it for a while...