Sobering Reminder from R.C. Sproul:
We have to be very careful when we read the New Testament to try to read it with virgin ears. We do not want to bring to the text all the baggage from the secular culture around us. One of the most destructive ideas we tend to bring is the pagan notion of free will, which hold that every time we have a moral option before us, we have the power to say yes or no; the will is basically in a state of indifference. That idea is as American as apple pie and Chevrolet and baseball, and it is as heretical as can be. It is not just unbiblical; it is anti-biblical. The notion of freedom cannot be found anywhere in sacred Scripture.
We are free in the sense that we have a will and the power of volition; by nature we have the capacity to make choices according to our desires. The problem is that the desires of our hearts by nature are only wicked continually. By nature we have no inclination toward the things of God.
-R.C. Sproul Commentary on Romans
