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NASB | Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 13:8 All the inhabitants of the earth will fall down and worship him, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb who has been slain [as a willing sacrifice]. |
Subject: Whose will causes a believer to sin? |
Bible Note: Hi Tim, "This is not a valid complaint. You have already established that we are allowed to use our human to determine when a verse is credible or not! ;-)" I assume the missing word in your Q. is human "reason". I do believe that "reason" was given to us for the express purpose of understanding God's Word. What I meant by "human wisdom" (a poor choice of terms on my part) is the "wisdom of this world". I define it as a false reasoning which attempts to undermine the clear teaching of Scripture by forcing it to agree with the mores of the contemporary culture. "did Adam and Eve simply follow their fallen nature when they sinned?" The WCF claims "Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory You know my position is that Adam and Eve were not cursed until after they sinned. They were not created with fallen natures. Their wills were absolutely free to choose either good or evil. They were free to choose spirtual good or ill, they chose ill. At the same time, God had known from all eternity that that would be their choice. He created them knowing what would occur. Now, I do not believe that God merely looks down the corridors of time to see what will occur in the future. This is a low view of God's omniscience and is more suitable to deism than christianity. I do believe that God is the creator in the highest sense of the word and that would mean that everything that occurs could not have occured apart from His work and purpose in creating the world. "The arguement that someone 'willing' follows a preordained choice makes no sense at all. It is a direct contradiction." Is 46:10,11 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, 'My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure'; Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it. Just because our litle peanut brains can't comprehend the mind of God does not justify our bringing "what is written" down to a level that agrees with our own man-glorifying notions of right and wrong. God Bless, John |