To: Forest Keeper; HarleyD
2,768 posted on
02/17/2006 4:39:44 PM PST by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; Forest Keeper
Our difficulties with Predestination arise from a, no doubt not unnatural, unwillingness to acknowledge ourselves to be wholly at the disposal of another. We wish to be at our own disposal. Great article.
Eze 18:4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine...."
2,770 posted on
02/17/2006 5:17:09 PM PST by
HarleyD
("Man's steps are ordained by the Lord, How then can man understand his way?" Prov 20:24)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD
Thanks for the wonderful article Dr. Eckleburg! :) This is my favorite part:
No one can imagine so inadvertent a God, that he always acts "on the spur of the moment," so to speak, with no manner of intention determining his action. Providence and Predestination are ideas which run into one another. Providence is but Predestination in its execution; Predestination is but Providence in its intention. When we say the one, we say the other, and the common idea which gives its content to both is control.
I also loved the analogy with the window. I think this would make a great thread.
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