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1 | Why does God still find fault? | Rom 9:18 | nwells | 138258 | ||
Freedom of the Will is from what I have read and heard a great book - I agree with your synopsys - We do what we desire most at the moment. I sin because I desire to sin more than I desire Christ. And when I don't sin, I do so because I desire Christ more than I desire sin. I totally agree that God must intervene for a person to be saved - my question was more along the lines of those who are not saved - those who are hardened: "What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened; " (Romans 11:7, NASB95) I agree that God is unable to sin - but my question I guess is more about us as evangelicals protecting God from the problem of evil when, at least is seems that in Romans 9, Paul protects God in a different way - not by saying God let's evil men do what they do and so making them guilty - but that God is working, hardening them, making sure of their damnation - using them for His own Glory - and he is not guilty, but they are guilty for God can do anything He wants to with his clay - God has skill and knowlege that we do not have and so God does things we cannot understand. I am not advocating that God is guilty for our sins - but - that based on Paul's argument, that question should come up - Why does God still find fault? I guess it was more an observation - that most of the teaching in the church about God's role in hardening would never cause someone to ask why God still finds fault with us - rather we never ask that because we understand we did it, and God didn't make us do anything - but is that Biblical? If it is Biblical then why did Paul give us the question? |
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2 | Why does God still find fault? | Rom 9:18 | DocTrinsograce | 138261 | ||
The Pauline epistles are Biblical... and you are right, the book of Romans is a didactic book from which we may rightly and correctly derive doctrine. The best answer to Paul's question is Paul's answer. |
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