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To: Mrs. Don-o
"Does God, in your view, control every choice of every person?"

As I mentioned in my other posts, this is not "my view", but the teaching of Scripture.

Prov. 16:9

The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

Prov. 16:1

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Prov. 20:24

Man's steps are ordained by the Lord, how then can man understand his way?

Prov. 21:1

The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord, He turns it wherever He wishes.

Keep in mind, this is Solomon speaking of himself. And, there are perhaps 50 additional specific references outside of Proverbs indicating God's specific control over the decisions of man. The Scriptures, however, make it clear that God created everything everything (sic) and we live and move and have our being in Him (Acts 17:28). There is nothing that can possibly be "outside" of His influence. That is because He is God of Heaven and Earth.

Is it your view (similar to the Openness theology of the Open Theists) that God does not control everything?

124 posted on 05/12/2015 4:42:48 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: Dutchboy88
"There is nothing that can possibly be "outside" of His influence."

That's only to state the obvious. Nothing could even exist without God's continuous willing it to exist.

133 posted on 05/13/2015 6:38:55 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (God created man in his own image, in the image of God He created him; male & female He created them.)
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