 | Thomas P. Flint - 1998 - 284 sider
...Grove, 111.: InterVarsiry Press, 1994), P- 42- Note as well this earlier passage from the Confession: "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established"... | |
 | Scott R. Burson, Jerry L. Walls - 2009 - 312 sider
...the thought-world, which in turn becomes a true first cause of an external result.2 FRANCIS SCHAEFFER God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy...author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.3... | |
 | Gary J. Dorrien - 1998 - 280 sider
...rooted in the assumption of total divine control," he explained. The Westminster Confession asserts that "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass."152 Pinnock recounted that it was out of this theological presupposition of total divine control... | |
 | Erwin W. Lutzer - 260 sider
...why the Westminster statement of faith can say that God ordains whatever comes to pass and yet add, "Yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence done to the will of the creatures, nor is liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather... | |
 | Kenneth Talbot, Gary Crampton - 1999 - 150 sider
...exists, and nothing exists which is not foreordained by Him. The Westminster Confession of Faith states: God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass....4 If anything were to exist independently of God, it would, of necessity, be coequal with God.... | |
 | Clark H. Pinnock - 2002 - 276 sider
...in God's immutable decrees and cannot be other than they are. As the Westminster Confession puts it, "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass" (chap. III). The divine initiative in such a theology is so powerful and irresistible that it can determine... | |
 | Christian Libery Press, Garry J. Moes - 1999 - 452 sider
...a first cause for history — God's sovereign will — and a second cause — human responsibility: God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the A Warning Against the Spirit of the Age ... Unless men's every thought is brought into captivity to... | |
 | Donald K. McKim - 2001 - 268 sider
...will." When they spoke of God's eternal decree, that is, God's eternal purpose, they declared that "God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass." The ease with which the confession speaks of the decree of God creates a difficulty for contemporary... | |
 | William Cathcart - 2001 - 502 sider
...comfortable dependence on him. III. OP GOD'S DECKER. — I. God hath decreed in himself from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably, all things whatsoever comes to pass ; yet so as thereby is God neither the author of sin, nor hath... | |
 | John Jefferson Davis - 2002 - 201 sider
...Puritan divines, speaks in a very similar fashion. Chapter 3, "Of God's Eternal Decree," states that "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass." As for those who are predestined to salvation, "their number is so certain and definite that it cannot... | |
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God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the... 
