Re: [asa] God as Cause

Yep, you're right -- and I should have caught that. I think the coercion v.
free will part is correct (with the caveats the Reformed Faith throws in --
that free will does not function in the arena of salvation -- that's God's
province)
--- George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
> To: <wdwllace@sympatico.ca>; <gmurphy@raex.com>
> Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [asa] God as Cause
>
>
>
> --- Dave Wallace <wdwllace@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > Have you written specifically as to why God's action should be expected
> > to be hidden? If so could you provide references. I agree with you but
> > I'm curious why you think so.
> >
> I'm pretty sure George has written on this, and I await his response.
> However,
> I have my own thooughts which may or may not be in tune with George. It
> seems
> to me that God has the choice of coercing the kind of behavior he wants from
> men, or of allowing men to have free will. For men's will to be completely
> free
> God cannot "tip his hand" by intervening in an obvious way, so instead he
> deals
> only with those who seek him, and only in ways that allow skeptics to deny
> that
> God is involved.
>
> Does God deal only with those who seek him?
>
> "I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,
> to be found by those who did not seek me.
> I said, 'Here I am, her I am,' to a nation that did not call on my name.
> I held out my hands all day long to a rebellious people,
> who walk in a way that is not good,
> following their own devices."
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
>
>
>

Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

 
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