Featured Is God the author of Evil/Sin?

MY Calvinist response is that I do not now, nor have I ever beaten my wife, so your comparison is flawed because Dahmer actually did the evil I asked you about, while I did not do the evil that you accuse me of. You have falsely accused me and should repent to God of your sin.

As for the sins of which I am actually guilty, God was most certainly capable of preventing them. In fact, God did intervene and prevent many sins that I had purposed in my heart to commit, but was unable to because of extraordinary circumstances preventing my acting on those desires. For those sins that I did commit, God had already incorporated them into His eternal plan - just as the sin of Joseph’s brothers furthered God’s plan towards the Passover - because God had foreknown me and predestined me and made arrangements to call me and draw me and justify me and, ultimately, glorify me. The sins that God permitted demonstrate that His choice of me was not because of any innate merit in me, but any “merit” in me is because God chose me.

That sin allows me to testify of just how wide and deep and unfailing the Love of God for His children really is.

That is MY Particular Baptist answer.

 

He asked me if I stopped beating my wife yet.
That is the opposite of “trying to debate with you about the OP”.

“Have you stopped cheating on your husband?”
(Think about how YOU would answer that question?)

 

I sure would like to know HOW you know you are who you claim, chosen of God. Subjective reasoning is human reasoning and you can only base your being chosen on how you act. If the Reformed could show me their names written somewhere before creation I would take my first step to taking them seriously.

 

God uses sin for his glory. No sin = no mercy. No sin = no righteousness. No sin = no grace. No sin = no sovereignty and so on. We see God's glory because of sin.

 

He causes people to eat their young and other people and that isn't sin?

 

Sin is punishment when God hardens hearts.

 

God cannot sin. Sin is a breaking of a law. And there are no other gods he must obey. Whatever God does is perfectly Just. Even turning refined mothers into cannibals as he did in the siege of Jerusalem. Where he clearly tells us it is a judgement on the Jews.

 

MissE, we have shared passage after passage with you from God's word. You are not being honest when you say we have shared "nothing at all." At this point, you are being stubborn and hard headed. You cannot blame Calvin, lack of scripture or anything but yourself for your attitude. That is entirely on you.

You can brag about how God chose you because you so admirably and pridefully chose God first, if that is your desire. But, your assertion is demonstrably false as shown to you by multiple passages in scripture and by multiple people on this board.

Remain in your arrogance until such time when God knocks your crutch out from under your feet, as he surely will do. (I lived 20+ years with the crutch you now use.)

 

[Gal 5:16-24 NASB] 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

self-inspection of Fruit.
Whichever group describes your heart, points to your destiny.

 

[Romans 8:28-30 NASB] 28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [His] purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to become] conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.​

[John 10:25-30 NASB] 25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me. 26 "But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. 27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 "My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of the Father's hand. 30 "I and the Father are one."​

[John 6:43-45 NASB] 43 Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not grumble among yourselves. 44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. 45 "It is written in the prophets, 'AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.​

Your gripe really isn’t with me, it is with the Apostles and, if scripture really is inspired, then your gripe is with God. I can’t help you with that one. EVERY saved person is a special snowflake precisely because each and every one of us was unworthy to be picked ... but God picked us anyway.

[Ephesians 2:1-10 NASB] 1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.​