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Your total absolute sovereignty of God view is not biblical. The lack of logic behind that view is astounding. You want God to be in total control but actually not in total control. Ken you have some serious logic problems. I find it amazing that when the error of your position is pointed out to Calvinist's they resort to false accusations which in my case is calling me a humanist or a pelagian.

 

Ken what would you like me to say? Since you think I did not answer you then I will let you make up whatever answer you think will make you happy.

Did I disagree and say that God could not tell satan what to do, NO. But you have taken His sovereign authority and turned it into absolute control and then you complain that we do not understand Calvinism when we point out the logical end of your theology. Ken you do not debate, you want everyone to just bow at your feet and praise you for your insight into the word of God. Not going to happen.

 

Humanists want God to serve them and be beneath them as they rule their lives and treat God as if he were their personal cupbearer.

 

I ascribe to God's word and His declared Sovereignty and rule over all His creation.
*Ephesians 2:1-10*
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 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— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Sliverhair, if you do not submit under the hand of God and repent, you will receive the exact treatment given to the Church in Laodicea. You should be shaken to your core, but instead, you speak like the ungodly ones in Revelation. I point you to turn to Christ Jesus and bow yourself under His rule and reign. It is not too late.

 

Your ignorance of Romans 9 is on display.

 

*Daniel 11:27,29*
And as for the two kings, their hearts shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.

“At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before.

It is a foolish person who imagines God is not guiding everything according to His will.

 

Believe that if you wish, but your view is entirely ignorant of God's holy word.
*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—

There is your cause. Believe it or not...

 

You are in denial Ken.

 

It is a foolish person that, like you Austin, that actually denies God His sovereignty.

 

Like? "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." Matthew 11:25.

 

In your view, I believe that if I am caused to. You forgot your own Calvinism there for a second. Don't worry it happens constantly.

This says absolutely nothing about the topic whatsoever. Neither for, or against, your view.

It mentions nothing about cause. It doesn't use the word or any synonym. As far as the question you pose it is equally consistent with Silverhair's Theology or yours.

I do not.

 

You are living in denial.
Dead people don't choose God. Ephesians 2:4-5 tells you exactly how you were saved.
"But God, while you were still dead, made you alive, by grace you were saved."

It seems you cannot accept this truth regarding God doing what you could not do.

 

Dead people don't sin either.
This argument from Calvinists always proves too much.

I get it, you thought your false dichotomy was an insuperable challenge no one could respond to.
You're going to defend it even if you have to keep quoting a verse irrelevant to the topic which says nothing whatsoever about it.

This is a choice you will make; probably numerous times.

That choice is a genuine one and was unlikely to have been necessitated by God's decree, nor any preexisting circumstances in your person or events surrounding it.
I'm sorry if you don't like it.
Atheists thought the Euthyphro dilemma was an insurmountable obstacle for centuries.
It has been exposed as a false dichotomy (as is your question).

Many of them have gotten used to the disappointment and have accepted this fact. You might do well to follow their lead.

 

Proverbs 21:30. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Why not? Because He is sovereign in all things.