[stripes1776]

I did find the following paragraph from Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion that states God's inability to do anything evil:

But if anyone should sacrilegiously object that little praise is due to God for His goodness, which He is constrained to preserve, shall we not readily reply that His inability to do evil arises from His infinite goodness and not from the impulse of violence? Therefore if a necessity of doing well impairs not the liberty of the divine will in doing well if the devil, who cannot but do evil, nevertheless sins voluntarily; who then will assert that man sins less voluntarily, because he is under a necessity of sinning? This necessity Augustine everywhere maintains, and even when he was pressed . . . he confidently expressed himself in these terms: "By means of liberty it came to pass that man fell into sin; but now the penal depravity consequent on it, instead of liberty, has introduced necessity."

As the master Calvin says, God is unable to do evil.

[kosta50]

As the master Calvin says, God is unable to do evil

Good find. But, I believe the Calvinists will tell you that this somehow "diminishes" His sovereignty.

[Gamecock]

****As the master Calvin says, God is unable to do evil.****

well, let's see what today's "great" minds say:

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(Aired December 2, 2005)

KING: How do you deal with it when you know, he made Adolph Hitler, because you just said he made all the children.

WARREN: Larry, the greatest blessings in our lives and the greatest curse is the same thing, it's this free will that we have. It's a great blessing because it gives me lots of freedom to do what I want to do. I can choose to do things.

The bad part of it is, I often choose to do dumb stuff. And I choose to hurt people sometimes unintentionally, sometimes intentionally. Some people take their free will like Hitler did and they destroy millions of people, destroy all of those 6 million killed in the Holocaust.

KING: And God could have prevented it.

WARREN: God could have prevented it, and the way he would have prevented it would be take away the free will of humanity.

KING: What if it was just Hitler?

WARREN: Well, if he just takes away--if he's going to take away every time we make a bad decision then that's going to take away all my free will.

KING: That's more than a bad decision, that's 6 million people.

WARREN: Six million people, and we don't downplay it.

Where was God when that was happening? He was weeping. I think people need to understand that not everything that happens on this planet is God's will.

In other words, part of it, in that God has -- God ultimately, as we talked about the ship is going to the other row, going to the other side of things. That's going there, but during the cruise, people are making all kinds of decisions and God says you shouldn't have done that.

I could go out there and get drunk and kill somebody and that wouldn't be God's will.

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So according to America's Pastor, God is an impotent bundle of nerves who can't control his creation. Is that te kind of god we want?

the greatest blessings in our lives and the greatest curse is the same thing, it's this free will that we have.

Even if you buy of on synergism, this should disturb you, Christ is the greatest blessing. This guy is clearly worshipping at the alter of self.