Featured Church Sign Message Has Low Opinion of Christ and High Opinion of Mankind

I do not find fault in God of the sins of men, including "God being the author of the sin" which crucified His Son on the cross.

I see the crucifixion of God's Son as by the Determinant Counsel and Foreknowledge of God, as He says, "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:" Acts 2:23.

God does not commit sin.

from: What Does the Bible Say About Jesus Did Not Have A Sin Nature?

1 Peter 2:22
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1 John 3:5
You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

Romans 8:3
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

We just have to be able to explain "the Determinant Counsel and Foreknowledge of God".

from: According to God's Good Pleasure

1. ACCORDING TO GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE IN CHRIST. Ephesians 3:11.

2. ACCORDING AS GOD HATH CHOSEN US IN CHRIST BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. Ephesians 1:4.

3. ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE. Ephesians 1:7.

4. ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY. Ephesians 3:16.

5. ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THE GIFT OF CHRIST. Ephesians 4:7.

6. ACCORDING TO THE EFFECTUAL WORKING IN THE MEASURE OF EVERY PART. Ephesians 4:16.

7. ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL. Ephesians 1:5.

8. ACCORDING TO HIS GOOD PLEASURE WHICH HE HATH PURPOSED IN HIMSELF. Ephesians 1:9.

9. ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKETH ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL. Ephesians 1:11.

10. ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY POWER. Ephesians 1:19.

11. ACCORDING TO THE GIFT OF THE GRACE OF GOD GIVEN UNTO PAUL BY THE EFFECTUAL WORKING OF GOD’S POWER. Ephesians 3:7.

12. ACCORDING TO THE POWER THAT WORKETH IN US. Ephesians 3:20.

When there is the appearance and seeming indication, to us, that "God responds to man", it is evidence that the occurrence had been Predestined by God.

Note, “according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself” and “according to the good pleasure of His will.”

He hath made known the mystery of His will.

This will is God’s predestinated purpose.

“Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world” (Acts 15:18)

 

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What does scripture say happened?

*Ephesians 2:4-5*
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Jon, the Bible tells us the answer.