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NASB | Acts 4:24 And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, "O Lord, it is You who MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 4:24 And when they heard it, they raised their voices together to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord [having complete power and authority], it is You who MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA, AND EVERYTHING THAT IS IN THEM, [Ex 20:11; Ps 146:6] |
Subject: Is God in absolut contrl over all things |
Bible Note: Dear Sir Pent, "Is this going somewhere?". God willing it is. Hmmmm....I wonder why we are told to preface our plans with a recognition of God's sovereign will. If I planned to go to Tarshish against God's will, would He force me to go to Nineveh? Is a 200 ton whale force. Oh yeah! Did God force Jonahs will? No. But, Jonah went unwillingly under extreme duress. You said: You quoted Gen 1:1, and said that God created the universe. I agree. You then said that if God did not “foreordain all that would occur” (I assume that you mean “force to happen everything that happens”) Foreordination does not entail force. It simply means that God willed it to occur and whatever He wills to occur does inevitably occur.(God never ever forces the will of man. He did not make us to be robots) "Why do you believe that the universe would be imperfect if God allowed somethings to happen without His direct control?" The POSSIBILITY of imperfection would exist because the final outcome would bear the mark of imperfect creatures. God's Creation is the work of an omniscient Being. Therefore, His Plan was known unto Him from all eternity. In order for it to be perfect it must by necissity be entirely His work alone. The Bible says He is the potter and we are the clay. But, we cannot take this vese too literarly. The clay is not an inanimate object but a living being. How then does God shape them if they refuse to conform to the type of vessel He foreordaned them to be? I don't know? I do know that He gives a new heart to the vessels of honor and leaves a the heart of stone in the vessels of wrath. Does this not jar our moern sensabilities? Of course it does. Paul knew it would jar his readers as well. That is why he said "who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?". Time to go for now. John |