Explores human choice, divine sovereignty, grace, responsibility, and how freedom is understood in relation to salvation and judgment.
God’s sovereignty was viewed as an essential attribute by the early Church, and anyone who dared to deny it was called an atheist. This is one of the most misunderstood and maligned attributes of God. Yet, it is an essential attribute that...
“At some time the nature of evil shall pass to extinction, being fully and completely removed from existence; and divine unmixed goodness shall embrace in itself every rational nature, nothing that has been made by God falling away from...
1 Cor 3:10-15; Rom 11:22; Matt 19:25
The death or the punishment that sin brings is as much a means of grace, on his view, as the death that being crucified with Christ brings, and in both cases death is a process whereby the old person or the false self is destroyed. The...
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Rom 11:36; Luke 15:4; Isa 59:1; Jer 32:17; Rev 1:18; 1 John 2:2; Rev 5:13; Phil 2:10
When we deify the will of man, we are saying to God… Oh well, Lord, it is a sad thing that… You cannot have what is yours (Rom 11:36). You cannot find what You have lost (Luke 15:4). Isaiah was wrong about Your hand not being so short that...
How ironic that those who believe God will not violate man’s “free” will have no problem believing that He forces men – against their will – to confess and bow to Christ.
How ironic that those who believe God will not violate the “free” will of man have no problem believing that He will violate His own free will – that all men should be saved!
1 Tim. 2:4; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9; Isaiah 45:22; 2 Peter 3:15; Psalm 103:19; 1 Timothy 6:15; Ephesians 1:11
When presenting a Scriptural case for the ultimate reconciliation of all mankind…where is the best place to start? There are a lot of verses to be sure, but which one (or ones) should usher the rest of them in? This is a difficult choice...
Isa 46:9; Rev 1:18
Why has the good news been perverted so much? The message of hell has affected us because... 1. It contradicts the unending, unfailing love of the Father. It perverts the message with the idea that we have to love Him before He will love...
1. How can an all powerful, all loving God create billions of people, knowing ahead of time that they’re going to be tormented in fire forever? 2. Is the power of our free will greater to damn ourselves than the free will of God to save...
Heb 2:10
How can suffering coexist in a universe with a perfectly good and all-powerful God? We can blame human free will, if we wish, but that does not remove the difficulty as to why God, knowing that men would use their free will thus, did not...