Featured Does God Want and Desire Obedience?

Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience.
So what happens that God did not include in His eternal plan?


"As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive." [Genesis 50:20 NASB]

 

1 thes 4.3 For this is the will of God , even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

 

One more time ...
God's permissive will incorporates man's failures into His plan for my good and His glory.

"As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive." [Genesis 50:20 NASB]

 

How many events here ? one .

 

II Thess 1:8

 

My point was on the Joseph account and how some take one event to mean God always does this the same for every event
.Or He determined this one thing over here ,therefore He determined which socks I decided to wear this morning.

 

Not what I am saying.
What I am saying is that is is impossible for an omniscient God to not know which future branch will actually be taken, so the branch that will be taken is part of the eternal plan of God.

Of course it would be. You are basically asking me if God can prophecy that something will happen and be wrong ... of course what God says will happen, really will happen.

I never said that.
There are no decisions that I can make that will come as a surprise to God and derail God’s plans.

Could you define OMNIPOTENT?
Could you define OMNISCIENT?
Could you define OMNIPRESENT?

I just want to make sure that we are talking about the same God before I seriously attempt to answer if I think that men can control what God will do or say.

 

Yes, but He would in some cases then render the Bible false and not be the God described in Scripture.

• The Muslim "god" did not offer the blood of Christ for our sins.
• The Catholic "god' may/or may not have "no other God beside me" depending on how far the "Mary as co-redemptrix" movement is taken.
• Jehovah's Witnesses are "non-Calvinist" ... are there only 144,000 seats available on the train to heaven with the rest restricted to the New Earth based entirely on our good works?

(as the saying goes, "The devil is in the details")

Yes.

Yes.
Not only CAN He do it, God actually DID do it ... His name was Adam.
He "CHOSE NOT to do what GOD WANTS AND DESIRES" and left all of us born with the free will to choose whatever we desire (GOOD or EVIL) and a natural desire to ALWAYS choose NOT to do what God wants and desires.

Calvinism does not teach that people are ROBOTS.
Calvinism teaches that our Free Will is corrupted by a sinful nature.
We are UNABLE to do what God command because we are UNWILLING to do so.

"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed." [John 3:19-20 NASB]

PS. Good exchange.