So the biblical view is this: God has ordained or willed or planned everything that happens in our world from before creation, from before time began. God is the primary agent – the primary cause, the final and ultimate explanation – of everything that happens, yet the causal relationship between God and His creatures is such that His having foreordained everything is compatible with — and indeed takes nothing away from — their creaturely power and efficacy.
–Mark Talbot
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (2006, p.68 )
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