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To: Lexinom; Dr. Eckleburg; xzins
Michael Horton, in his White Horse Inn series Reforming Worship, put it this way: God is a machine, predictable. If we do x, God will do y. God is reacting to what we do.

If God promises to do x if a man will do y and when a man then does x and God does not do y, then what is God?

22 posted on 01/21/2005 1:03:35 PM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe; Dr. Eckleburg; xzins
In the paradigm set forth you've essentially set man up as the prime-mover, aka God.

If man does x it is because God, the prime mover, did w. To say otherwise is rob God of His power and glory.

24 posted on 01/21/2005 1:15:21 PM PST by Lexinom (www.revotewa.com - Go DINO! www.illegitimategovernor.com)
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To: P-Marlowe
If God promises to do x if a man will do y and when a man then does x and God does not do y, then what is God?

In this case, a lot more perceptive than you. If it is God who promises to do x, then for man to do x means that x is not anything supernatural, otherwise only God could do it. If God promises to do x if man does y, then if man does x, there is no need for God to do y. Man has done it all!

60 posted on 01/21/2005 6:23:38 PM PST by nobdysfool (Faith in Christ is the evidence of God's choosing, not the cause of it.)
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