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November 21, 2017 - January 4, 2018
According to the Scriptures, God does not control all
things directly.
Hold on there buddy.
This frees God from being morally responsible for evil, but it also prevents evil from undermining and thwarting His eternal purposes.
Don’t think it’s proper to impute motivations to god this way...
Man remained free to do what he wanted to do, but this also means that he was bound to do only what he wanted to do. Because man had become enslaved to his own sinful nature, it was impossible for him to please God (Rom. 8:5). As a polluted spring cannot produce fresh water or a bad tree bear good fruit, a depraved man
will not love God above himself.
GreT way of explaning this.
“At the heart of all science lies the conviction that the universe is orderly. Without this deep
conviction science would not be possible.”[
“The first surprise,” Wright says, “when we read the resurrection stories in the canonical
Look this back up when prepping for other apologetic arguments.
“So the choice is this:” according to John Frame, “either accept the God of the Bible or deny objective morality, objective truth, the rationality of man, and the rational knowability of the universe.”[25.3]
Christ died for you.
Christ died for the elect.
