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NASB | Galatians 2:17 "But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be! |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Galatians 2:17 "But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ [by faith], we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ an advocate or promoter of our sin? Certainly not! |
Subject: But aren't they mutually exclusive? |
Bible Note: Hi Norrie, Your description here is more or less how I have come to understand this. The one thing I would want to be made very clear, though, is that God is never surprised by the decisions that we make. He does know the beginning from the end. I just don't think that He can have predetermined (predestined) *all* of those decisions for us. Any decisions that are predestined are not, in fact, *our* decisions; they are God's decisions. What I am trying to understand in all of this is how the Calvinist view can suggest that everything that does happen (including sin) can possibly be *both* "God's predetermined, unchangeable plan" *and* the real exercise of choice on the part of His creatures. As I understand it, any particular decision or choice made by one of God's creatures can be only one or the other, but not both. Suggesting that a decision can be both seems to me to be contradictory, and thus my initial question about this being "a Calvinistic contradiction" (see my post " But aren't they mutually exclusive?" and the follow up post "All of God's decree is not predestined?"). Have a good day. Bob |