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NASB | Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, |
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Subject: Why won't Calvinists answer directly??? |
Bible Note: Hey, come on back jg8ball, you twisted what I said and it needs to be defended! For over a week I can't let it go! I did not say that the characters in the analogy were unable to express their own thoughts or wills, and that they only follow the script. Quite the contrary, they are the characters that the Author created them to be. They suite His purposes for existing. They are not what the whole thing is all about! It is about the Author! So they do only what they want to do! They have been created that way. See Jonathan Edwards treatise on the "freedom of the will". Edwards taught that all free moral agents do what they most want to do all the time. When sin is most interesting they sin, when pleasing God is most interesting they please God. Always what we want to do. But by definition there are things that we can't do. Like choose God, when unbelief is already what they do. Faith is a gift. Regeneration must first occur, then one can "believe on Him unto salvation." The analogy of the Author and His characters is just an analogy, and it breaks down. What authors of human books write for the purpose of glorifying themselves and to be worshiped? I suppose some humans who have poached egg brains exist out there who do this, but they are not what I was hoping to focus on. God is truly writing (created the universe) for different reasons than human writers do. |