[Dr. Eckleburg]

Only man's rejection can...negate God's goodness."

Yep, that's exactly where your faulty logic takes you.

Powerful man; inept God; ineffectual grace.

[fortheDeclaration]

Only man's rejection can...negate God's goodness." Yep, that's exactly where your faulty logic takes you. Powerful man; inept God; ineffectual grace.

Not if it is how God wanted it!

If God wants to give man the ability to say 'no' as well as 'yes' who are to answer back to God?

And ineffectual grace is a forced grace since grace is an aspect of Love (not power as the Calvinists would have it) and a forced love is a contradiction.