Comments on: Questions to ask ourselves concerning the sovereignty of God http://www.fireonyourhead.org/2005/09/07/questions-the-sovereignty-god/ Articles to provoke you towards personal and global revival Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stevie B http://www.fireonyourhead.org/2005/09/07/questions-the-sovereignty-god/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Stevie B Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.fireonyourhead.org/archives/626#comment-39 This indirectly responds to your comments, and says the same thing with different words (except I refuse to adhere to traditional Calvinism as it's taught)<br/><br/>This is a quote from an entry I wrote this winter, just stumbled across it today and post here:<br/><br/>It's like two flies flying over a giant rocket. One lands underneath the rockets, the other lands ontop of the ship's nose, and upon takeoff both have a radically different experience--one is scorched by the flames from the rockets as the ship lifts high into the sky, the other is taken up into the skies at new heights. Both have a legit experience, but form radical conclusions diametrically opposed to each other--but one has no right to assume their experience is the sum total of how a rocket works. Likewise I cringe when I listen to people in the Body of Christ insist on one side of a view that has many more angles. Such examples include but are not limited to divine healing, the Holy Spirit [and by default ways He operates], and Calvinism(predestination) vs. Arminianism (emphasis on man's free will to chose salvation)--neither Jean Calvin and Jacobus Arminius are in the Bible, so why they are treated like authors of the Bible is beyond me. This indirectly responds to your comments, and says the same thing with different words (except I refuse to adhere to traditional Calvinism as it’s taught)

This is a quote from an entry I wrote this winter, just stumbled across it today and post here:

It’s like two flies flying over a giant rocket. One lands underneath the rockets, the other lands ontop of the ship’s nose, and upon takeoff both have a radically different experience–one is scorched by the flames from the rockets as the ship lifts high into the sky, the other is taken up into the skies at new heights. Both have a legit experience, but form radical conclusions diametrically opposed to each other–but one has no right to assume their experience is the sum total of how a rocket works. Likewise I cringe when I listen to people in the Body of Christ insist on one side of a view that has many more angles. Such examples include but are not limited to divine healing, the Holy Spirit [and by default ways He operates], and Calvinism(predestination) vs. Arminianism (emphasis on man’s free will to chose salvation)–neither Jean Calvin and Jacobus Arminius are in the Bible, so why they are treated like authors of the Bible is beyond me.

]]> By: shine.is.dead http://www.fireonyourhead.org/2005/09/07/questions-the-sovereignty-god/comment-page-1/#comment-38 shine.is.dead Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:02:00 +0000 http://www.fireonyourhead.org/archives/626#comment-38 Hmm... Thought provoking.<br/><br/>I have often called myself a Calvinist. I do believe in election, predestination, eternal security and all that other "sovereignty of God" stuff. (That is clearly taught in scripture).<br/><br/>I also believe that human beings have free will, and that (to quote the somewhat tired KJV) "the prayers of the righteous availeth much." (These as well are clearly taught in scripture)<br/><br/>These two seem mutually exclusive and contradictory, and for a human to attempt to reconcile these (or to argue for one over the other) it is futile. I accept God's wisdom over mine, and accept that I do not (and cannot) understand everything.<br/><br/>I think the point of prayer / worship / evangelism is clear. We are created for the specific purpose of glorifying God (Romans 11:36). Doing the above is the method God gives us to glorify him.<br/><br/>And to those that are "lazy Christians," I think the best advice is that we are commanded to evangelize, and those that don't will be judged. (And of course to those that do there is a reward, as if seeing the lost reconciled to the Lord isn't reward enough). Hmm… Thought provoking.

I have often called myself a Calvinist. I do believe in election, predestination, eternal security and all that other “sovereignty of God” stuff. (That is clearly taught in scripture).

I also believe that human beings have free will, and that (to quote the somewhat tired KJV) “the prayers of the righteous availeth much.” (These as well are clearly taught in scripture)

These two seem mutually exclusive and contradictory, and for a human to attempt to reconcile these (or to argue for one over the other) it is futile. I accept God’s wisdom over mine, and accept that I do not (and cannot) understand everything.

I think the point of prayer / worship / evangelism is clear. We are created for the specific purpose of glorifying God (Romans 11:36). Doing the above is the method God gives us to glorify him.

And to those that are “lazy Christians,” I think the best advice is that we are commanded to evangelize, and those that don’t will be judged. (And of course to those that do there is a reward, as if seeing the lost reconciled to the Lord isn’t reward enough).

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