First, your fatherhood of God analogy might hold water on the Oprah show but it has no biblical foundation.
We Christians are adopted into His family. God is not our natural Father. Satan is our natural father.
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.”
That is not what Jesus shows in Luke 15. The prodigal son was originally at home with his father. It was only after he knowingly and willingly went out in sin that he was joined to a citizen of that far country (Satan).
Luk 15:11 And he said, A certain man
had two sons:
Luk 15:13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
This is when the prodigal became both lost and dead, a child of wrath, and a child of the devil. But when he repented, twice Jesus said he was alive AGAIN, proving men are not born dead in sin.
Luk 15:24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Second, and most importantly, nowhere did Biblicist state or infer God approves sin or tempts man to sin.
No?
Biblicist said:
Hence, God determined that sin would occur.
Biblicist said God DETERMINED sin would occur. In your view, if God determines something must happen, it is impossible for it to happen otherwise.
I believe sin is necessary, even for God. I showed and explained scripture that I believe supports this.
Yours is a complete misrepresentation. I believe you have once again constructed the infamous ‘straw man’ argument which has no substance whatsoever. Rather it exposes your blind bias.
No, I just showed you that Biblicist believes God DETERMINED sin.
Adam was created mutable. He had the power to sin or not to sin.
You finally got something right.
Fallen man is born of the flesh, the slave of sin. He has lost the power to not sin. He sins continually.
“He who sins is the slave of sin.”
Amazing, you say something accurate, but do not understand it. Jesus did not say we sin because we are enslaved and compelled to sin, he said whoever sins is the servant of sin.
No man is born with a cigarette in his mouth. It is only after a man willingly and knowingly chooses to smoke and continues to do so that he becomes addicted and a slave of nicotine.
No man is born with a bottle of Jack Daniels in his hand, it is when a man chooses to drink and continues to do so that he eventually becomes an alcoholic.
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
This is simply stating a fact, it does not say man is compelled to sin, you are reading that into this verse.
Regenerated man is born of the Spirit of God. Though mutable, he now has the power, through grace, to not sin.
Unregenerated men have the power not to sin. Some unregenerated men are faithful to their wives to the day they die, while regenerated men have been known to cheat on their wives. All men can choose to do good or evil.
Glorified man is immutable (those in Heaven both before and after the Resurrection). He has no power to sin.
Saved men after the resurrection have the indwelling Holy Spirit, they partake in the divine nature, their seed remains in them, so they will not choose to sin. But he will still have free will.
