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1 | God is not the author of evil. | Job | Mommapbs | 99121 | ||
Greetings John - you wrote: "My point is that the fact that Jesus was prevented from gathering the people of Jerusalem into His protection is a poor arguement against God's soveriegn rule over all things." I am not argung against God's sovereign rule. As I read that verse, I do not see the inability of God and especially I do not see His unwillingness. I also do not believe He was unable due to the limitations He was subject to as Incarnate. The reason He "could not" was due to the unwillingness of man to surrender to the will of God. Jesus COULD have gathered His people, but THEY WOULD NOT. This does not diminish my understanding of God's sovereign rule, but reveals His permissive will. He loves us even when we don't love Him. He died for all, which in my understanding includes even those who reject Him (past, present and future). He is still IN CONTROL when we refuse to submit to His authority. I believe that when God created man in His image, that necessitated a free will. Yet our choices are not always Godly and we must suffer the consequences of those that are not. It is God's will that mankind have a free will . . . therefore, God's sovereignty triumphs again. You wrote: "He was God and man at the same time but there was no mingling or mixture of the human nature with the nature of the Diety." Please explain what you mean here. mommapbs |
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2 | God is not the author of evil. | Job | John Reformed | 99143 | ||
Dear momapbs, I have to go out, so I have to be brief in my reply. A carefull reading of Matt 23 shows that the "they" in "they would not" are the pharisees and the leaders who were preventing Jesus from gathering the people of the city of Jerusalem. Does a slave to sin have free will to disobey his master? If so he not a slave in the biblical sense of the word. Does the following passage support "free-willism"? 2 Tim 2:25,26 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will. These two verses are an accurate description of the state of fallen mankind. They are absolutely dependent on the grace of God for repentance and gaining the knowledge of the truth. They are not free to do good, but are captives to the will of their father the devil and are enthralled by him. So much for free will... John |
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3 | God is not the author of evil. | Job | Morant61 | 99164 | ||
Greetings John! Just a point of clarification my friend. Mt. 23:37 does not say 'they would not'. It says 'you would not'. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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4 | God is not the author of evil. | Job | John Reformed | 99165 | ||
Sorry Mommpbs, They or you, my point remains the same. The object of the sentence was not the people but the leaders. John |
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