We may content ourselves by saying over the sin of Adam and Eve what Joseph said over the sin of his brothers when they sold him into slavery: “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Gen 50:20).
As for you, Adam and Eve, you meant evil against God as [...]
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Oh What an Infinite Good He Planned through Your Fall!
Posted in Suffering and the Sovereignty of God on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Greatest Display of the Glory of God’s Grace
Posted in John Piper, sovereignty, suffering on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The suffering of the utterly innocent and infinitely holy Son of God in the place of utterly undeserving sinners to bring us to everlasting joy is the greatest display of the glory of God’s grace that ever was, or ever could be.
This was the moment — Good Friday — for which everything in the universe [...]
The Law Cannot Make a Man Love Me But It Can Keep Him from Lynching Me
Posted in Martin Luther King, persecution, racism on September 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Now the other myth that gets around is the idea that legislation cannot really solve the problem and that it has no great role to play in this period of social change because you’ve got to change the heart and you can’t change the heart through legislation. You can’t legislate morals. The job must be [...]
The Church Must Love Through Word and Deed
Posted in Timothy Keller on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Regardless of our political views, it is indisputable that millions of people who once looked to the government will now need service and aid from churches and other agencies. The church will be forced by demographics to see what the Bible has always said. Love cannot be only expressed through talk, but through word and [...]
“Babae, Don’t You See?”
Posted in Steve Saint, sovereignty on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I was praying, Stephenie had a massive cerebral hemorrhage. We rushed to the hospital. I rode in the ambulance while our son Jaime and Ginny and Mincaye followed us in the car. Grandfather Mincaye had never seen this type of vehicle with the flashing lights, didn’t understand why strangers had rushed into the house [...]
The Death of My Dad
Posted in Steve Saint, sovereignty on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If God could plan the death of His own righteous Son, why couldn’t He plan the death of my dad?
–Steve Saint
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (2006, p.117)
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We Lack the Conceptual Wherewithal
Posted in Mark Talbot, foreordination and man's choice, unattainable knowledge on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thus Scripture reveals that both human agency and divine agency are to be fully affirmed without attempting to tell us how this can be, because we have no way to understand it, no matter what Scripture would say: all of our analogies concerning different agents or different kinds of agency must be drawn from what [...]
We Can Understand Why We Cannot Understand
Posted in Mark Talbot, foreordination and man's choice, unattainable knowledge on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“But,” you ask, “how can this possibly be? How can Joseph’s brothers have acted freely and responsibly if what they did was what God had previously ordained? How can Pilate and Herod and Judas and the Jewish people be properly blamed fror what God had predestined to take place? How can God govern the choices [...]
God Is the Primary Agent
Posted in Mark Talbot, foreordination and man's choice on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
God Sustained Them in Their Sin
Posted in Mark Talbot, foreordination and man's choice on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God, as the One who actively sustains all things (see again Heb. 1:3 with Col 1:17), was the source of their being. But they, as Adam’s descendants, were the sole source of their sin. Their sinful inclinations made them the authors of their own sin. And, consequently, they did evil while God did not, for [...]
