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To: what's up

re: “Actually, one’s choice or volition will always be rebellion toward God. We do not have power to be righteous.”

Yes, in the Calvinist view - God ordained man to sin. Man has not free will to do anything other than what God ordained, so therefore God is the source of evil.


39 posted on 07/12/2013 3:02:40 PM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: rusty schucklefurd
Man has not free will to do anything other than what God ordained, so therefore God is the source of evil

No, God cannot be a source of evil. He is perfect holiness.

God allows evil...for example He allowed Satan to test Job. But Job's testing resulted in a further revelation of God's perfection to the detriment of Satan.

44 posted on 07/12/2013 3:18:17 PM PDT by what's up
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