Subject: The Plan of God in an Arminian Nutshell |
Bible Note: Lionstrong, Just a note to tell you that your summary of Arminian theology has prompted me to pray for Arminians. Their God is definitely too small. Regarding one aspect of your assessment, i.e., that God cannot control free-will, I would like to share a comment I heard Dr. Walter Martin make many years ago. Once upon a time, God wanted Jonah to go to Nineveh. Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh. Jonah went in the opposite direction. Well, inasmuch as it was God's will that Jonah would go to Nineveh, God simply arranged the affairs of Jonah's life in order to make Jonah willing to go to Nineveh. Jonah did not go to Nineveh against his will, God simply made him willing to go. Our God called the universe into existence by commanding it to be so. Is it such a stretch of the imagination to conceive of the possibility that He can control His own creation? Frankly, I find it a really strange idea that a mere human could thwart the will of God. I take great comfort in the knowledge that all of the details of time and eternity will unfold just as God has decreed they shall unfold. Otherwise, He wouldn't be God. Yours in the Lord, Dan K. |
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