Quotes from Early Church fathers Justin Martyr c 160AD

"In the beginning, He made the human race with the power of thought and of choosing the truth and doing right, so that all men are without excuse before God."

"Neither do we maintain that it is by fate that men do what they do, or suffer what they suffer. Rather, we  maintain that each man acts rightly or sins by his free choice.... Since God in the beginning made the race of angels and men with free will, they will justly suffer in eternal fire the punishment of whatever sins they have committed."

"It was God's desire for both angels and men, who were endowed with free will... that if they chose the things acceptable to Him, He would keep them free from death and from punishment. However, if they did evil, He would punish each as He sees fit."

" I have proved in what has been said that those who were foreknown to be unrighteous, whether men or angels, are not made wicked by God's fault. Rather each man is what he will appear to be through his own fault."

 Note as we look at Justin Martyr quotes they speak of free will  that man has the ability to do right or wrong it is his decision and man will be responsible for his decision. It is not God fault that you choose to do evil as some would have us to think that God is the author of sin. We can see the example in Genesis, that God gave Adam and Eve the ability to discern what is right and wrong and to make a choice, that is why God had the tree of good and evil as a test to see if they were willing to make a choice (free will) to obey or disobey this was the only way that God could prove to Himself that it was fair and that the loyalty was to Him or to themselves. We also should recognize that this was the teaching of the Apostles and the Early church leaders until Augustine arrive and destroy the Truth of the Gospel. Augustine claim to have come out of a Gnostic sect but he brought the teachings of this group into the Church, which destroy the repentance message because we were born sinners and we no longer had a free will to choose but this was excuse for them to continue in sin.