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FEATURED MY ASSURANCE: GOD IS IN CONTROL, PART 2
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'God always gives His best to those He loves, but sometimes His will includes something you would never choose for yourself. How do you reconcile God's generous love with the pain and sorrow He allows? Dr. Stanley responds to those of us who wrestle with this question in part two of My Assurance: God is in Control.'
I found a significant Christian teacher that uses the term 'limited free will' in regard to humanity.
Dr. Charles Stanley of In Touch Ministries
My PhD term.
I rarely see the term used online and did not see it used by a significant teacher or writer in my academic research at Wales or prior to.
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2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter
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'In contrast, I deduce that God can have very specific intentions in every situation, while allowing significant limited free will, and this has been explained throughout this work.'
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I wrote three posts on the weekend, the last two on my second blog:
Sovereignty Theodicy
False Story
Robust Enough
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Jazz Festival was good with friends on the weekend, interesting to see turntable used...
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ReplyDeleteMy sister Candice's husband drove right into a radar trap. And because Candice was following him in her car, the police officer nabbed her too.
After the officer had written up one ticket, he approached Candice. Her defense was that she was merely following her husband. When that appeal failed, she tried another tack:
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That Court Helps Us Think Better
ReplyDeleteSo is marriage better than a hookup? That sounds like an easy question, but put in the word "same-sex" and then how does it look to you? Commitment plus sin all together? Try this feeble analogy, did the murders that Godfather Marlon Brando pulled off feel better to you than a hit-man killing just for money? Since sexual activity doesn't go on non-stop, can you see value in committed same-sex friendship the rest of the time? Did the Court send a message of love or of indifference? If today the Court were promoting man/woman relationships, would you see that as progress—or if it were without trust in Jesus Christ, would it be just another kind of respectable rebellion against God?
I think the last question is the key one. Do we value unbelieving conventional marriage too highly? Do we think respectable sinners are more likely to love Jesus Christ than the other kind? When the short word for "respectable" is clearly "Pharisee?" Doing the right thing is good but not if anyone takes it as deserving God's blessing. I shudder now at my memories of funerals, strolling past the open casket and hearing, Griff wasn't a church person but if anyone's going to heaven he will. Overweighted respectability.
ReplyDeleteAre good people closer to Jesus than bad? That's not the way the gospels see it. Isn't the main thing seeing your need? Knowing you're so sick that you need a doctor? Right now believers in Jesus are tempted to see our real friends as the respectable people—but we know a lot better.
ReplyDeletePaul told us he was the greatest sinner ever, and he was serious. When the real message is, that our only hope is the Lord's grace and patient love, then we need to live that way too. Can we learn to say to the watching world, respectable and not: we can't look down on you or anyone because we know who we are. So can we talk together about the only real hope there is for anyone? That's our way ahead, always but right now especially.
ReplyDeleteThat's the first thing, but there are practical decisions we need to make. We should distance ourselves from civil marriage. Just ask the man and woman to show us the form from the government office that says they've been married, then call what we will do in church a Celebration, and leave out the final words "according to the law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania I now pronounce you man and wife." You wouldn't have to return the card to the PA Orphans Court either. No big deal. We would be just like Europe or Canada, and it works well there.
ReplyDeleteThat upcoming presidential election, that will be big. I hate making anything a one-issue thing, but now I think this one is. The next president will make several crucial Supreme Court nominations, so what kind are they likely to be? That's more important than the economy or foreign policy or whatever, isn't it?
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My friend Chuck has suggested the Church get out of the marriage business.
ReplyDeleteVery much worth considering.
The state does all legal marriages.
Private Biblical marriages, non-legal are done by Biblical churches.
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A Sunday school teacher asked, "Johnny, do you think Noah did a lot of fishing when he was on the Ark?"
"No," replied Johnny. "How could he, with just two worms.
…..Copyright 2014 Mike Atkinson (www.mikeysFunnies.com) by way of “Christian Voices” (ChristianVoices@att.net)
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When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
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