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1 | But aren't they mutually exclusive? | Gal 2:17 | Reformer Joe | 13970 | ||
Norrie: I do disagree with some of your statements; but it is not important who agrees with whom, but rather which view is most closely aligned with the revealed Word. Personally, I do not see a lot of support, for example, for the idea that God has ONE person in mind for you to marry and that you must "seek out God's perfect will" in that area. One sees general guidelines for whom you should select as a mate (e.g. not being "unequally yoked") and one should exercise wisdom in the choice of a mate (e.g. don't marry a homebody if you plan on being a missionary in Burma), but there is not a Scripture which suggests that if I marry Jane the Christian instead of Denise the Christian that somehow I have messed up God's perfect plan. Same is true for other life decisions as well. There is God's moral will which is revealed, and God's sovereign will which is inescapable. I see no biblical support for a particular kind of "individual will" in which God plays hide-and-seek for what He wants us to do. Thanks! --Joe! |
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2 | But aren't they mutually exclusive? | Gal 2:17 | Norrie | 13972 | ||
If you follow that God planned everything, suppose I went to a party and was either by my choice or slipped some drugs, got wacked out and ended up killing someone while I was under the influence, would this be God's will for me? I think not! That would ne like saying God planned for Hitler to kill all the Jews. God doesn't plan things like that, they happen, He may permit it or just not intervene and let you reap what you sow but He doesn't decide that maybe I need a lesson taught and on the way to my car one night I get raped to teach me a lesson. I just can't see God sitting around planning all these evil things to happen to us, sorry! |
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3 | But aren't they mutually exclusive? | Gal 2:17 | Reformer Joe | 13975 | ||
Norrie: It is a leap in logic to say that because God ordains everything that happens, that he allows evil to exist just to punish individuals. Hopw do you explain Job? Was it not God's plan for all of that to happen to him (notice, who points Satan in Job's direction in chapter 1?)? Did Job do something to deserve the evil that befell him? Nope, the text makes that perfectly clear as well. Therefore, we have God pointing out Job, knowing exactly how Satan would react (since God is omniscient), and using the entire incident to glorify Himself. This is the God who is. As far as Hitler: when did God know that Hitler would commit the atrocities that he did? Who brought Hitler into existence? Who allowed him to gain the power that he did, knowing all along the evil in Hitler's heart? Who allowed Hitler to build the concentration camps? Who allowed him to kill as many as he did before being stopped? And the most important question: did any of the Holocaust take God by surprise in the slightest? And, lastly, what do you make of verses like these? Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, 'My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure'; Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it. --Isaiah 46:9-11 Again, the question isn't whether you SEE God doing it. The question is whether that is the God as revealed in the whole counsel of the Bible. Thanks! --Joe! |
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