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| Encountering page 134 |
ELWELL, WALTER AND YARBROUGH, ROBERT W., Third Edition (2013) Encountering The New Testament, Grand Rapids, Baker Academic.
In all honesty, I am simply working through the 'Encountering' text looking for the next useful graphic to scan and share.
There was no agenda, as in seeking this type of graphic, as in subject.
However, I was thinking about this very subject the last few days.
Seems to me, theologically, within my (a) Reformed worldview, even as God is the primary cause of all things, it could reasonably be argued that human beings would be a secondary cause of the points opined by the text here.
God having perfect, holy motives, and human beings having imperfect, tainted motives (Romans). The regenerated can do the work of God through the Holy Spirit, although still tainted by sin. The physical human remains tainted (flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God: 1 Corinthians 15) until the resurrection of those in Jesus Christ occurs.
Therefore, in light of the significantly documented present natural disasters, in western society, it would not be heretical to at least theologically consider that human beings may be a significant secondary influence in some recent natural evils.
This is not a theological attempt at reasoning that such and such is deserved from God. That is hyper-speculative far too often. Rather, I am reasoning possible secondary causes in many contexts as it relates to the graphic.
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