Does God use sin to accomplish His purposes? Certainly He does.
Yes. When man sins, God can certainly turn it for good.
Does God control/give/direct thoughts, turn thoughts and hearts to accomplish His purposes?
God does not give evil thoughts. Through meditation upon His word, we can transform our minds to think right thoughts. All through the Bible we are instructed to meditate upon His word, to guard our hearts, to take thoughts captive, etc. These admonitions would not be in His word if He took control of our minds, leaving out our free will.
In allowing Satan to inflict and misdirect, and put thoughts into hearts, who then is still in control of this?
Control as in controlling the wheel, it would be satan or man's free will. God may determine the outcome, but the act itself is controlled by the conductor.
That God allows man to think thoughts, without intervening, who then is really in control?
God determines the outcome, man controls the act.
When God Himself turns hearts to accomplish His purposes, who is in control there?
If God supernaturally turns it, God controlled it.
Note, I've never implied God gives man, nor does He put into man each and every thought as another has falsely claimed me to say. To say such is to react knee jerk without looking at facts, as too many fellow Baptists do, to their shame.
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When God is directing our thoughts, to accomplish His will, who is in charge?
God directs mans thoughts through meditation upon His word. Man is in charge of the meditation which will bring God's direction through His written will.
Either God is all control of all things, and nothing is done which He didn't foreknow, and that nothing that happens occurs to God later is factual, or He is in fact not God.
God didn't control Eve when she took the fruit. She controlled herself. God turned what man controlled and brought about restoration.
One on here (so far) says God does not know all things. This is a fallacy. Or, does God just simply not know all things, as Copeland theology, word-faith proponents teach, or is such teaching in error, and God does in fact know all things, and such teaching is then erroneous?
Jesus said no-one knows, not even Himself of the day when He will return, but the Father.
I have described that God controls all thoughts and outcomes according to His purposes and determinitive counsel, and by permissive counsel, still showing He to be in control of all situations, since permission implies ability to intervene.
To the best of your ability.
Two more things: Christ is God, and Christ and the Godhead are perfectly sinless. Any aligning of God as the author of sin, due to His permitting of sin to accomplish His purposes, is solely upon the one who falsely claims I have said so, which I in fact vehemenently deny.
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Incapability of seeing God in Control and equating it with evil is fallacy and shallow theological error.
The debate comes with the actual meaning of the word "control" and how it is used.
God can and does Sovereignly control all things, and is free from sin and corruption in it because His nature is Pure, Just and Holy and Incorruptible. Thus he and He alone can control all things and remain pure. To equate control with evil is to not understand that God is pure and holy, and is a reflection on those who do espouse this as being erroneous in their understanding of the nature of God, and that He is incorrutpible.
Again, the debate comes from the use of the word "control" and its context.
All of the above describe that God is purely Sovereign. I expect that several will beg to differ and seek to strip God of His rightful place.
See this is where contention builds mostly. Because others have a different understanding, you want to charge them with stripping God of who He is. Give others a little credit.
Let's move forward here. Let's not add to words, or name call, and be as men and women, and as you claim, Christian.
OK, but practice what you preach.
