It's very simple Dear Brother, God is the first cause of everything created and God is flawless eternal goodness in anything He creates because He Himself is perfect goodness. Therefore evil cannot be in God, if it were ,than God would be flawed.
“God saw all things that he had made, and they were very good “(Gen. i, 31): “He made all things good in his own time” (Eccles. iii, 11): “Every creature of God is good (1 Tim. iv, 4).
I guess you disagree with this Scripture?
FK-””The reason many cannot accept the sovereignty of God is that it would mean that man was dependent on God, and this just can't be the case for many people. Therefore, they say, if man does not determine his own destiny, and if man is not in control, then God creates evil. It just isn't so. I understand this thinking because I used to think I was the captain of my own ship too.””
In other words... Now you have accepted what ever sins you have committed as part of God's plan for your life.
In this way of thinking you elevate evil as something God needs to create in order to be sovereign.
You have fallen into the heresy of accepting everything as fate now. In doing this you will have to accept Hitler's reign,lucifer being cast out of heaven, the fall of Adam and Eve etc... as part of God's created plan.
This is the way the muslims think,Dear Brother!
From New Advent
FATE IN THE KORAN
The idea of fate among orthodox Mohammedans is founded on the doctrine of God's absolute decree, and of predestination both for good and for evil. The prophet encouraged his followers to fight without fear, and even with desperation, by assuring them that no timidity or caution could save their lives in battle or avert their inevitable destiny.
Does this sound familiar to you?
“This is the way the muslims think,Dear Brother!”
:) This mentality, apparent in some Western Christian thought, has been commented upon before and not just here on FR. Of course, despite the denials of many in the West, especially here in America, Mohammedanism is at base the most successful of the Christian heresies in the Church’s existence, far more so than those before or since. Bibliolatry is a similar phenomenon. Personally, I find it difficult to believe that this particular thread in Mohammedan thought, among others, did not influence non-Latin, non-Orthodox Christian thought as it developed in the universities of Western Europe after say 1500.
Nothing is outside of God's created plan because as God tells us Himself...
"Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure" -- Isaiah 46:10
Satan is a created being. Any time God doesn't want him to prowl the earth, all He has to do is erase him from existence in less than the blink of an eye.
Further, if, as Scripture tells us, Jesus Christ is the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world," then of course God likewise purposed Adam and Eve's fall from the foundation of the world, or else you would have God ordaining an offering for something that had yet to occur in the mind of God, which is ridiculous.
It's very simple Dear Brother, God is the first cause of everything created and God is flawless eternal goodness in anything He creates because He Himself is perfect goodness. Therefore evil cannot be in God, if it were, than God would be flawed.
I don't recall that I have ever disagreed with any of your above. God is the first cause of everything created - TRUE. God is flawless eternal goodness in anything He creates - TRUE. God Himself is perfect goodness - TRUE. Evil cannot be in God - TRUE. God is not flawed - TRUE.
God saw all things that he had made, and they were very good (Gen. i, 31): He made all things good in his own time (Eccles. iii, 11): Every creature of God is good (1 Tim. iv, 4).
I guess you disagree with this Scripture?
I don't disagree with any scripture. :) The first is fine on its face, since no one argues that God created satan. The second two are also fine, as long as we understand that all that God created was good, FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE. For example, God created poisonous animals. That is still good because God had specific intentions for them. Another example is that God created Judas with the intention of him betraying Jesus. For God's will, that was good.
In other words... Now you have accepted what ever sins you have committed as part of God's plan for your life.
I have accepted that my sins were paid for by Christ's work on the cross. And since I cannot know what God's plan is, there is no reason for me to ever seek sin. Scripture teaches that I must not sin, so that is my goal. As far as God's plan for my life, scripture tells us:
Jer 29:11 : For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
"Prospering" includes learning through mistakes.
In this way of thinking you elevate evil as something God needs to create in order to be sovereign.
I don't know how. As a Sovereign, God "needs" for nothing. He does, though, make choices for His own purposes.
You have fallen into the heresy of accepting everything as fate now. In doing this you will have to accept Hitler's reign, lucifer being cast out of heaven, the fall of Adam and Eve etc... as part of God's created plan.
They WERE all part of God's created plan, or else God is not omnipotent, but rather impotent! In addition, there is a great difference between fate and predestination. From B.B. Warfield:
Amen. Predestination is born of love. Fatalism is born of chance.