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1 | Does this mean God is the author of sin? | 2 Sam 12:11 | RWC | 16606 | ||
Dear kalos, Please accept my humble apologies!! I read this post when you first posted it just over a week ago. I fully intended to reply to it, but never did. I also noticed that you have posted this same message in a few other threads related to this same basic question, but (just going by memory here) I don't recall anyone responding to it significantly in any of those places either. There is very little in what you wrote and quoted here that I would seriously question or take exception with. The problem is that it doesn't seem to answer my question, or, at least, if it does I have failed to see how. I am quite convinced that 1) God is in fact good and that 2) all that He created was good in its original creation. If I may, I'll leave you with two questions that will hopefully clarify what it is that I am asking, both in this particular thread and in the thread which spawned this one (Gal. 2:17). 1. Isaiah 45:6-7 is indeed a fairly easy text to deal with. But how do you understand the passage to which this thread is attached, and (just as importantly) why do you understand it that way? 2. You wrote: "God is certainly sovereign over evil. There's a sense in which it is proper even to say that evil is part of His eternal decree." I am not exactly certain of what you are intending by the use of the words "sovereign" and "decree," but if, as the strongly Calvanist position seems to take, you mean that God has predetermined (ordained, predestined) every detail of history before any of it came to be, than how can He not also be properly called the author (source) of sin? I suppose it would be best if you are going to respond to the second question, that you do so in the thread attached to Gal. 2:17, since that is the question that is asked there and it would be at least somewhat outside of the scope of this particular thread. Again, please accept my apologies. It was not my intent to ignore what you had written. Have a good day. Bob |
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2 | Does this mean God is the author of sin? | 2 Sam 12:11 | kalos | 16649 | ||
Ephesians 1:4 Part 1 RWC: I was delighted to hear from you. Thank you for your interest. Your apology is accepted, although no offense was taken. I was not offended by anything you had done or not done. In this Note I will attempt to answer the questions you have asked in your posts. It is a pleasure to reply to your most courteous and pleasant posting. Preface Let me preface my remarks by saying that I am neither a 5-point Calvinist nor a defender of Calvinism. Nor am I Arminian. When I quote Calvin it is because I regard him as a brilliant theologian who wrote and taught many other things besides the doctrine of election. I simply believe the Bible doctrine of election, supported by many passages of scripture and summed up in Ephesian 1:4 -- "Just as He (God) chose us in Him (Christ) before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him." Here is a brief statement of what I believe about election. "Election is the act of God whereby in eternity past He chose those who will be saved. Election . . . does not depend on anything outside of God, such as good works or foreseen faith (Romans 9:16). This doctrine is repeatedly taught in the Bible, and is also demanded by our knowledge of God. . . No sinner can ever make the first move in the salvation process. This is what Jesus meant in John 6:44, when He said, "No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him." . . . Ephesians 1:4-5,11 reads, "Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will . . . also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will" (www.gty.org/IssuesandAnswers/archive/). (For much more detailed information on what I believe the Bible doctrine of election is, use the Search function. You will find that I, kalos, have posted a total of 48 Answers and Notes that include the word "election." I think that anything I ever had to say about election is contained in those 48 postings.) "God is in fact good" RWC: You write, "I am quite convinced that 1) God is in fact good and that 2) all that He created was good in its original creation." I would to God that thou were both almost and altogether persuaded that "3) God cannot in any way be the author of evil. God's role with regard to evil is never as its author." (to be continued) |
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