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1 | Does God lead us to sin? | Ex 4:21 | chosen one | 215862 | ||
Does God lead us to sin? Math 6: - in the Our Father it states "lead us not into temptation" and in the Old Testament, I believe it is in Exodus it states the God hardened Pharaoh's heart. Again someone please help me to clear this up. | ||||||
2 | Does God lead us to sin? | Ex 4:21 | stjohn | 215863 | ||
Hi chosen one, God is soveren in all things and berings about all things for his purposses to compleat His plan for man and the ultimate salvation of His elect. His sonergin hand can and does goveren the actions of men without jeprodizing the free will that he gives to them. "how can man, limited by a sin nature, ever choose what is good? It is only through the grace and power of God that free will truly becomes “free” in the sense of being able to choose salvation (John 15:16). It is the Holy Spirit who works in and through a person’s will to regenerate that person (John 1:12-13) and give him/her a new nature “created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24). Salvation is God’s work. At the same time, our motives, desires, and actions are voluntary, and we are rightly held responsible for them." http://www.gotquestions.org/free-will.html We must remember that all men are oposed to God and "desperatly wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9) and do not chose to obay Him unless He leads us to do so by the gift of faith and the leading (presence) of the Holly Spitit in the heart of the believer. Pharaoh's heat therefore was already predisposed to disobey God. "Ex. 4:21 I will harden his heart. The heart refers to the whole of the intellect, will, and emotions from which a person acts. The various Hebrew verbs used to describe the hardening of Pharaoh's heart all refer to a desire to act contrary to the Lord rather than in accord with him. (See chart.) The hardening of Pharaoh's heart is referred to throughout chs. 4–14 with the implication that Pharaoh is answerable for his own actions (e.g., 8:15). However, the Lord states here that it is his sovereign hand that ultimately governs the events. This is also indicated by the recurring “as the Lord had said” (see 7:13; 8:15, 18; 9:12, 35). Though one might conclude that, if God hardens someone's heart, the latter is not answerable for his actions, this is not the biblical view, and certainly here the narrative is also careful to point out that Pharaoh also hardened his own heart (8:15, 32; 9:34). The sinner remains responsible for his sin. Cf. Rom. 9:16–18." ESV study Bible notes John |
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3 | Does God lead us to sin? | Ex 4:21 | azurelaw | 215864 | ||
Dear John, I have just found a very brief but succinct discussion on the will of God by R.C. Sproul (at monergism.org) as below. Hope you enjoy it, too. Shalom Azure ****** The Will of God by R. C. Sproul ...The Bible is deeply concerned about the will of God---His sovereign authority over His creation and everything in it. When we speak about God's will we do so in at least three different ways. The broader concept is known as God's decretive, sovereign, or hidden will. By this, theologians refer to the will of God by which He sovereignly ordains everything that comes to pass. Because God is sovereign and His will can never be frustrated, we can be sure that nothing happens over which He is not in control. He at least must "permit" whatever happens to happen. Yet even when God passively permits things to happen, He chooses to permit them in that He always has the power and right to intervene and prevent the actions and events of this world. Insofar as He lets things happen, He has "willed" them in this certain sense. Though God's sovereign will is often hidden from us until after it comes to pass, there is one aspect of His will that is plain to us---His preceptive will. Here God reveals His will through His holy law. For example, it is the will of God that we do not steal; that we love our enemies; that we repent; that we be holy. This aspect of God's will is revealed in His Word as well as in our conscience, by which God has written His moral law upon our heart. His laws, whether they be found in the Scripture or in the heart, are binding. We have no authority to violate this will. We have the power or ability to thwart the preceptive will of God, though never the right to do so. Nor can we excuse ourselves for sinning by saying, "Que sera, sera." It may be God's sovereign or hidden will that we be "permitted" to sin, as he brings His sovereign will to pass even through and by means of the sinful acts of people. God ordained that Jesus be betrayed by the instrument of Judas's treachery. Yet this makes Judas's sin no less evil or treacherous. When God "permits" us to break His preceptive will, it is not to be understood as permission in the moral sense of His granting us a moral right. His permission gives us the power, but not the right to sin. The third way the Bible speaks of the will of God is with respect to God's will of disposition. This will describes God's attitude. It defines what is pleasing to Him. For example, God takes no delight in the death of the wicked, yet He most surely wills or decrees the death of the wicked. God's ultimate delight is in His own holiness and righteousness. When He judges the world, He delights in the vindication of His own righteousness and justice, yet He is not gleeful in a vindictive sense toward those who receive His judgment. God is pleased when we find our pleasure in obedience. He is sorely displeased when we are disobedient. Many Christians become preoccupied or even obsessed with finding the "will" of God for their lives. If the will we are seeking is His secret, hidden, or decretive will, then our quest is a fool's errand. The secret counsel of God is His secret. He has not been pleased to make it known to us. Far from being a mark of spirituality,the quest for God's secret will is an unwarranted invasion of God's privacy. God's secret counsel is none of our business. This is partly why the Bible takes such a negative view of fortune-telling, necromancy, and other forms of prohibited practices. We would be wise to follow the counsel of John Calvin when he said, "When God closes His holy mouth, I will desist from inquiry." The true mark of spirituality is seen in those seeking to know the will of God that is revealed in His preceptive will. It is the godly person who meditates on God's law day and night. While we seek to be "led" by the Holy Spirit, it is vital to remember that the Holy Spirit is primarily leading us into righteousness. We are called to live our lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. It is His revealed will that is our business, indeed, the chief business of our lives. Summary 1. The three meanings of the will of God: (a) Sovereign decretive will, the will by which God brings to pass whatsoever He decrees. This is hidden to us until it happens. (b) Preceptive will is God's revealed law or commandments, which we have the power but not the right to break. (c) Will of disposition describes God's attitude or disposition. It reveals what is pleasing to Him. 2. God's sovereign "permission" of human sin is not His moral approval. |
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4 | Does God lead us to sin? | Ex 4:21 | stjohn | 215874 | ||
Dear Sister Azure, Thanks for posting that sister! A good read for sure. And I love Dr Sproul, he's my kind of theologian; a real hard-nosed Monergist! :-) I love his attitude too and I totally agree; God's sovereign decretive will, is none of our business, what is is His revealed will! By the way Sister Azure, I've had monergism.com in my bookmarked favorites for quite some time now, it's one of my favorite websites. I'm happy to see you are visiting it too! I wish more Christians would read the stuff they have there it's very theologically sound. And there is so much there! It's really such a wonderful resource, I hardly know where to start sometimes. I'm like a kid in a candy store. :-) Shalom John |
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