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|  a_theist "Thy will be done."

Date Joined Dec 2002 Total Posts : 286 | Posted 1/22/2003 7:43 PM (GMT -6) |   | Are There Two Wills in God?
Has this already been brought to the boards attention? Should I worry about this article even though I haven't read it? It just seems so intimidating--God having two wills--because it sounds like another assault on openness theology. Am I right about that?
Thanks, Paul
"The Creator's power (by which I mean the capacity to influence the world) is made manifest paradoxically in the vulnerable defenselessness of crucified man." -John F. Haught | | Back to Top | | |
 |  Starkman Registered Member

Date Joined Oct 2001 Total Posts : 1747 | Posted 1/23/2003 4:25 AM (GMT -6) |   | Here's the opening and first paragraph of the article?
"My aim in this chapter is to show from Scripture that the simultaneous existence of God's will for "all persons to be saved" (1 Tim. 2:4) and his will to elect unconditionally those who will actually be saved is not a sign of divine schizophrenia or exegetical confusion. A corresponding aim is to show that unconditional election therefore does not contradict biblical expressions of God's compassion for all people, and does not nullify sincere offers of salvation to everyone who is lost among all the peoples of the world." (Bold is Keith's)
At this point, who cares about two wills; seems we're already in a contradiction (I am an OVer, after all) before we even get started!
Oh well,
Starkman
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 |  a_theist "Thy will be done."

Date Joined Dec 2002 Total Posts : 286 | Posted 1/23/2003 4:27 AM (GMT -6) |   | I am an OV'er also, Keith! *holds hand up to give high-five*
"The Creator's power (by which I mean the capacity to influence the world) is made manifest paradoxically in the vulnerable defenselessness of crucified man." -John F. Haught | | Back to Top | | |
 |  Springs Registered Member
 Date Joined Jul 2001 Total Posts : 636 | Posted 1/23/2003 5:23 AM (GMT -6) |   | Yeah, it's been discussed. I don't remember where. Hey, Al aren't you the master surfer? Do you remember where it is? -S
"When all was over, and the last key turned, I sought my pillow, thankful that God had appointed a season of rest for the weary." Harriet Jacobs | | Back to Top | | |
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