spoken for

Rating: 10

This is my third time to read this book, there’s just so much good info that should be refreshed every now and again. Though I don’t think I finished it last time, before I loaned it to someone. I have it back again, so I start again. I would like to quote something from the second chapter. It’s quite lengthy but I feel it’s a very good piece, so bear with me.

That God in some sense foreordains whatever comes to pass is a necessary result of His sovereignty. In itself it does not plead for Calvinism. It only declares that God is absolutely sovereign over His creation. God can foreordain things in different ways. But everything that happens must at least happen by His permission. If He permits something, then He must decide to allow it. If He decides to allow something, then in a sense He is foreordaining it. Who, among Christians, would argue that God could not sop something in this world from happening? If God so desires, He has the power to stop the whole world.

To say that God foreordains all that comes to pass is simply to say tht God is sovereign over His entire creation. If something would come to pass apart from His sovereign permission, then that which came to pass would frustrate His sovereignty. If God refused to permit something to happen and it happened anyway, then whatever caused it to happen would have more authority and power than God Himself. If there is any part of creation outside of God’s sovereignty then God is simply not sovereign. If God is not sovereign, then God is not God.

More to come!