[jo kus]

If you ONLY understand the first half of Augustine's paradox then you are living the Pelagius heresy.

If you ONLY understand God's sovereignty without understanding at the same time man's free will to choose, you are living the Calvinism heresy of double predestination - that God actively chooses to create and send men to hell. Only with man's free will is God's justice left intact.

If God creates something that cannot do a command of His, then how can He judge the creation as a failure?

Of course God gives what He commands. But He does not overwhelm nature. The fact that man can ignore God's graces is clear from Scripture, and shows that man DOES have a choice to make.

Regards

[HarleyD]

If you ONLY understand God's sovereignty without understanding at the same time man's free will to choose, you are living the Calvinism heresy of double predestination

Forget Calvinism for the moment. Forget predestination, man's free will, and everything else. What precisely is man choosing and how does he make this choice?