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To: kosta50
Wickeness is beyond God’s abilities?

Yes. God is not a source or cause of wickendenss. Can God lie? God did not predestine wickedness.

You are misrepresenting the position we state there.

No one has implied that God pre-ordained wickedness or sin. Quite the contrary, Lucifer's and Adam's sin did not take God by surprise, since God knew full well that both would rebel against Him, and in His knowledge of all things, determined to Redeem the Elect of humanity as an inheritance for the Son, as the supreme expression of the Love between the Father and Son, to be witnessed by man and angels alike.

10,558 posted on 11/06/2007 4:37:03 PM PST by Missey_Lucy_Goosey
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To: Missey_Lucy_Goosey

:::No one has implied that God pre-ordained wickedness or sin. Quite the contrary, Lucifer’s and Adam’s sin did not take God by surprise, since God knew full well that both would rebel against Him, and in His knowledge of all things, determined to Redeem the Elect of humanity as an inheritance for the Son, as the supreme expression of the Love between the Father and Son, to be witnessed by man and angels alike.:::

Sounds like double talk. Under Reformed theology, nothing is done without Divine preordaining. So preordaining Adam to original sin in order to deprave humanity into wickedness and sin, with its consequences of everlasting hell means that God has preordained wickedness and sin.


10,789 posted on 11/08/2007 2:35:48 PM PST by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
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