Subject: Is whate'er my God ordains right? |
Bible Note: Brother, charis, Let me try to add a little clarity Responsible defined: 1. Liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust. 2. Involving personal accountability or ability to act without guidance or superior authority: a responsible position within the company. 3. Being a source or cause. This come from the American Heritage Dictionary. These are not all the definitions, but do you notice the first one? In a dictionary, the first definition is either the most used meaning or the original meaning. Now, I understand that the word can be used to mean cause, but the first definition is to be required to give an account. The first definition, of course does not apply to God. He answers to no one. And that's why in my above posting I said that God is not responsible. And that is also why I asked JV how he was defining the word. How can anyone disagree that God is the first cause of all things? Granted, God didn't cause Satan to tempt Eve, He didn't cause Cain to murder Abel, or the low lifes to bear false witness against Naboth the Jezreelite. God is not the author of sin, but why don't people understand that had there been no creation there would have been no serpent and Eve, no Cain and Abel, and no Ahab and Naboth? To put it in another way, God is the cause of evil, the ultimate cause, not the immediate cause. Yours in the Sovereign Christ, Lionstrong |