Hey, I went for years as a godless church-goer. Then I spent years after that as a really carnal Christian. At the time God was pleased to let me continue as nit-wit knowing that I would be run from the highway on my motorcycle by a violent man. Then, and only then, did I start to really grow up. And I wear the broken bone in my back as a reminder.
Psalm 42:10 As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"Some of us are more stiff-necked than others and some of us think that stiff-neckedness is an olympic event.
I would prefer to say that there is no "balance" in the correct understanding of the sovereignty of God. There are merely multiple issues in the cascade of the theology.
The word "balance" suggests that two different ideas are being pitted against each other. This is the wrong approach, since the doctrine of man's responsible free agency is subsumed under the high doctrine of predestination.
Spurgeon pointed out this fact to a lady who asked "How can you reconcile predestination and human responsibility?"
He answered by pointing out that her very question betrayed a misunderstanding of the overall issues in the sovereignty of God. He said that her question is like asking how we can reconcile a man and a woman who are madly in love with each other.
His point is that they don't need to be reconciled. They fit together beautifully. By the same token, balance is not really at issue in the picture of predestination and free agency.
Was that on NBC last night?
Guess I missed it.