Subject: God is not the author of evil. |
Bible Note: 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 |