----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Z Bandstra" <bandstra@ese.ogi.edu>
To: "'ASA LISTSERV '" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: Preprogrammed?
> In the "Preprogrammed" and "Gasket" posts of late the idea of God's
> sovereignty being an overview sovereignty has seemingly been expressed.
> For example, God being not sovereign over our particular choices but only
> over some sort of general pattern. This, I think, is inappropriate. I
> wrote earlier on the matter expressing a duality existing between human
> free will and God's sovereignty, one that could not be resolved via human
> reason. I think I should qualify the phrase "God's sovereignty" by the
> word immanent. God's plan is not simply for the pattern of our lives but
> rather God's hand is present in all that we do.
Since I will never run for president and don't have to worry about what
happened to Jimmy Carter, I can ask the following question with impunity :
So, then, you are saying that God is with me when I lust in my heart, covet,
steal, lie, cheat, hate my neighbor and otherwise engage in various forms
of sin? [Ironic mode on] I am glad that He is responsible for my sin and
not me! And I thought that it was the devil who made me do it.:-) [ironic
mode off]
glenn
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