tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331156725554508589.post4016322308912928753..comments2023-10-04T05:09:54.848-05:00Comments on Contra Mundum: Predestinated to ObedienceAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908788730958708701noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331156725554508589.post-39241703143033170462011-08-16T18:52:35.674-05:002011-08-16T18:52:35.674-05:00Thanks for the comments, Charlie. I appreciate the...Thanks for the comments, Charlie. I appreciate the input. Dort anathematized those who claimed that Predestination led to lawlessness. Arminians have a hard time seeing how this can be, because they automatically think of it as a license to sin with impunity.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02908788730958708701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331156725554508589.post-23176351700018552552011-08-16T10:18:29.828-05:002011-08-16T10:18:29.828-05:0019. What is God's providence towards the angel...19. What is God's providence towards the angels?<br /><br />Answer: God by his providence permitted some of the angels, wilfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation,1 limiting and ordering that, and all their sins, to his own glory;2 and established the rest in holiness and happiness;3 employing them all,4 at his pleasure, in the administrations of his power, mercy, and justice.5 <br /><br />See also: WCF 5.4<br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />1 Jude 6; 2 Pet. 2:4; Heb. 2:16; John 8:44 <br /><br />2 Job 1:12; Matt. 8:31 <br /><br />3 1 Tim. 5:21; Mark 8:38; Heb. 12:22 <br /><br />4 Ps. 104:4 <br /><br />5 2 Kings 19:35; Heb. 1:14Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331156725554508589.post-34962006938954633802011-08-16T10:17:19.247-05:002011-08-16T10:17:19.247-05:00WCF Ch. 5 Of Providence
4. The almighty power, un...WCF Ch. 5 Of Providence<br /><br />4. The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in His providence, that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men,1 and that not by a bare permission,2 but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding,3 and otherwise ordering and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to His own holy ends;4 yet so, as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God; who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.5 <br /><br />See also: WLC 19<br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />1 Rom. 11:32,33,34; 2 Sam. 24:1; 1 Chron. 21:1; 1 Kings 22:22,23; 1 Chron. 10:4,13,14; 2 Sam. 16:10; Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27,28. <br /><br />2 Acts 14:16. <br /><br />3 Ps. 76:10; 2 Kings 19:28. <br /><br />4 Gen. 1:20; Isa. 10:6,7,12. <br /><br />5 James 1:13,14,17; 1 John 2:16; Ps. 50:21.Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331156725554508589.post-9545446742164126082011-08-16T10:15:22.734-05:002011-08-16T10:15:22.734-05:00It is also true that when the elect fall into terr...It is also true that when the elect fall into terrible sins that this also is God's decretive will since nothing happens by mere permission. This does not remove the accountability of the sinner but it does acknowledge that God works His will through secondary causes...Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.com