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To: ShadowAce
He’s still completely sovereign

I think perhaps you are confused regarding the definition of "sovereignty". Delegation of a decision to your "free will" (if that's your position) contradicts the "complete sovereignty" of God. In that case, you are sovereign regarding the outcome of that decision.
21 posted on 04/20/2012 12:17:04 PM PDT by armydoc
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To: armydoc
I'm not confused at all.

Christ was both fully human and fully God--another seeming contradiction, but with God, all things are possible.

Don't forget that Christ taught free will through the parable of the Prodigal Son. Free will is assumed and mentioned more times in the Scriptures than not (The whole command to repent is based on the concept of free will). So we must believe that it exists. How we reconcile that with the teachings from Romans about predestination can get quite tricky.

I'm not saying predestination doesn't exist, I'm saying that it doesn't exist in the form that monergists want to say it is.

23 posted on 04/20/2012 12:36:51 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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