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NASB | Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 115:3 But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases. |
Bible Question (short): Decretive Will vs. Perceptive Will? |
Question (full): Doc, Regarding the example... 1. Is it actually suggested that it was God's decree - "His eternal purpose, according to His will, whereby He has foreordained" - that the man rob a bank? 2. Would that not be the same thing as saying that God decreed the man to sin, that is, God decreed this man to go against his preceptive, i.e. revealed will? Even further, being an eternal decree, is it being suggested that God never intended for the man to obey a known divine precept? 3. Could not the rape of a child also be used as an example of God's "decretive will"? Can it not also be said that, although God having laid the command "thou shalt not rape children," nevertheless, God never intended for this man to obey it? 4. How can God, if the integrity of His being is to be maintained, will the opposite of what he commands, worse, never intend the obedience demanded in the first place? 5. Furthermore (and this question is the more important, which I would like a response), how does Deut 29:29 demonstrate such a teaching regrading God's will as proposed in your post? |