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1. Man has free will within the context of Creation; he makes real and authentic voluntary choices according to his nature and desire.
2. Those choices never fall outside of God's preordained, sovereign will.
3. God's omnipotence above and beyond Creation can never be denied by Man's choices within it.
#Calvinism
It sounds like youāre more referring to molinism. Molinism emphasizes free will more than Calvinism while still retaining sovereignty.
Except for molinism would say that our choices do fall outside of free will (ie when we go against his will by sinning)
There's nothing Man can do that violates God's will, who created our nature. Man acting according to nature, Man in rebellion, is precisely to God's glorious plan.
The fact that we can make choices in our lives does not threaten God's omniscience, nor does it mean God is in suspense awaiting our choices, then reacting. No, God knows how we will act before we do, but that doesn't mean we are not the ones who are acting.
Man truly exists as beings apart from God, just not independent of God's sovereignty.
Basic act of personal readiness to act for Deity, as well as our self-identification with its directions of spiritual acts. The ultimate Beings life is not and object exactly in the same sense as a person is not an object. Absolute Being is not there to support and complement us on our weaknesses and needs, all of which acts would require Absolute Being to become an object. It is the readiness to act on the part of human being himself that opens up the possibility for us to also āknowā Being of What-Is-Trough-Itself. The human heart/self is the only place of the becoming of God accessible to us, but it is a true part of this transcendent process itself.
I realize thatās Calvinist theology but Iām unconvinced that either scripturally or philosophically correct.
Have you explored Molinism. William Lane Craig is a prominent proponent of this view.
Will look into it.
Boss.
Ray Dalio with a good overview.
No, I don't agree with Molinism.
My view sits with Calvinism.
Man has sovereignty (lowercase, little s) but God is Sovereign.
We have "free will" but are creatures of Creation, so that anything we do is bound in time and in Creation, so that God (who sits above Creation) knows how we will act before we do, to the extent that He knew before Creation and could know the Elect then.
Predestination, God's knowing of how man will act and Creation serving God's glorious plan, does not undermine God's creatures "free will".
One of religionās best get out of jail free cards š
Similar for the Darwin kids trying to shirk accountability for their actions - I evolved to bla bla shitty thing they doā¦.
Honest question and not trying to attack your viewpoint, but how do you reconcile Ephesians 1 and 2 and Romans 8 talking about how God has predestined us along with being omniscient and knowing in advance what we are going to do?
Predestination and Man's agency (ability to act in the world) are not compatible because Man is confined to Creation, God is not.
God's plan is woven into our Nature, so that nothing we can do or choose can violate it.
In this way, I think of Man as having "sovereignty" (air quotes, little s), while God is Sovereign.
Are not *incompatible
As a believer we are little gods with the full authority given to us by God. All power comes from god through our autonomous free will.
