A Straw Man Argument Against The Chrisitan Doctrine Of Predestination

58 8 ALL CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN PREDESTINATION R.C. SPROUL All of this was according to God’s eternal purpose to make man and mankind in His own image able to glory God in every thing he does. This was before the fall. Where predestination come in is that God had decreed the fall should take place in such a way that Adam and Eve acted according to the freedom of their will and so became guilt of sin. Through their sin all changed. God had an eternal purpose and decreed that the fall should take place. The fall of Adam and Eve and the Angels could not have take place unless God had decreed it. And by the decree I mean all events that came and do come to pass and are according to Gods eternal purpose . Genesis is page one of the unfolding book of Predestination that the hand of providence opens for us.

Loss Of Righteousness The fall rendered them sinful without righteousness unable to proved a righteousness to please God and open to know both good and evil due to a sinful fallen nature and now exposed to the wiles of the Devil, the curse and Judgement of God and each having sinful nature that exposed them to arguments, sinful thought, unkind actions and hatred, none of which God approved of.

Not Sinners At their First Creation They were not sinners as at their first creation, nor were they created to sin.

Just as a master crafts man or artist does not creates a design or picture to destroy it but be satisfied.

But we are not to think, in the outworking of the eternal purpose of God that when presented with a choice to obey God or not God is responsible for their fall. They were. Of all the trees in the garden you may freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shall not eat of it for in the day you eat thereof you shall surety die.

Adam Not Made to Die Adam was not made to die nor Eve, they could have continued their life, happy life , in the garden living just the life even as the hippies wanted to do in my generation, in the 60’s. The problem was sin entered and with sin the treated death they were warned of. Death entered through sin, death had become an enemy, that is why I uses to take you to funerals when you was a boy to show you how serious death was because is seen and felt by all of us today. Let the Covid Threat do the same to man today.

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