But as noted earlier, there are certainly other ways to read the biblical story. You could argue that God actually pre-determined the events in Eden and that God never surrenders any of his control over creation. As Bruce Ware says: The sole criterion for understanding the nature of divine sovereignty is simply this: whatever God tells us in Scripture about his lordship and sovereign rulership over the universe is what we should believe . . . From the beginning of the Bible to the end (quite literally), readers are constantly encouraged, in account after account, to think of God as in control
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