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NASB | Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. |
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Subject: Decretive Will vs. Perceptive Will? |
Bible Note: Hi Doc, Appreciate your response although, being a parroted response (noted with all due respect), it does fail to answer the specifics of my questions. 1. I assume your answer is essentially, “yes”? 2. I cannot see where your response specifically address the question: If, as you suggest in your answer to #1, God decreed that the man would rob the bank, does that mean God also decreed this man to go against his preceptive (i.e. revealed) will? 3. It seems your answer affirms that a child’s rape is God's "decretive will." However, I don’t see where my further questioning is answered by #1, that is, God having decreed the rape of a child and having laid the command, "thou shalt not rape children," nevertheless, never intended for the man who raped the child to obey it? Or, to put simply, did God also decree that a man disobey the divinely revealed will against rape? 4. I don’t see how I am mistaking “determinism” with “sovereignty.” My question has really no bearing on the divine sovereignty. It does question the compatibility of God being true in his dealings with man in light of Him openly commanding and expecting someone to do one thing while simultaneously secretly decreeing and intending he do the opposite. 5. Your answer seems to be that your view of the divine decree is not supported in any way by Deut 29:29, it showing only that “some information is God’s business alone, not man’s”. |