I have been labeled hyper-Calvinist on this board, and there be some here who have hinted at me being outright heretical, but for the life of me, I cannot understand how God can glory in creating Adam and decreeing, that is foreordaining, in other words, setting events into motion, in which Adam will finally and without fail sin against Him, so that He will have to banish Adam from the garden, and in turn impute upon every one of Adam's descendant Adam's sin, and cause everyone to be born fallen, corrupt, and depraved, necessitating His putting on the form of a slave, and taking upon Himself the punishment of those whom He designed to save from eternity past, thru a covenant with Himself, delighting in His own death in the body of His eternal Son, in order for Him to have a people unto Himself who will praise His riches in mercy for generations ?
I cannot understand that. I do not see Scripture that makes God at once both the author and punisher of sin in light of such Scriptures as pointed out by those on this board, such as Scriptures that state that He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked !!
For Him to foreordain Adam's fall and sin, and pass on this depravity to others, and then say that He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, makes Him a HYPOCRITE !
Please do not justify such monstrous doctrine with pat references to God's "mysterious" ways and God's sovereignty (which no one denies).
I believe that, although God foresaw and foreknew that Adam will fall, it was not because He had set in motion certain events to transpire that will ensure Adam's fall.
I believe that the reason Adam fell, was because "dust thou art", that is, he was taken from dust, from the earth, although created perfect and without sin, until his predisposition to sin, bore witness to God's holiness, being the only One in this entire Universe, which He brought into existence, that was self-existent, therefore absolutely pure and holy.
Further more, I dare not proceed at this point.
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