what is created is based on the purposes of God
In this post we will look at God’s degrees. Before anything created existed, God was in eternity having fellowship in the Trinity. Because God is the source of all creation, what he creates must be based on a purpose. God does not create irrational things. So when God created, he created according to a plan. This plan was based on God’s will, Why?, because God is sovereign and also the only rational being, existing.
So the degrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
"But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purpose of his heart through all generations. (Ps. 33;11)
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say; My purpose will stand and I will do all that I please. (Isa. 46;10)
"Being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. (Eph. 1;11)
God in his degree’s has absolute freedom to do as he will’s, and yes this is based on God’s good nature as well. Nothing is out of his control nothing is without purpose. Psalm 139 verse 15-16 makes it very clear that all our days have been ordained for us, they were written in a book before they came to be. God has written history and also our days.
In the following post’s I will deal with the problem of evil and also human freedom as it fits with Gods Sovereignty. But for now I will leave us these three passages to think on,
"Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord." (Exod. 4;11)
"I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster, I the Lord, do all these things." (Isa. 45;7)
"Who can speak and have it happen, if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come"(lam. 3;37-38)
The last verse is powerful and demonstrates what God’s degree is. No action will come to pass in the created order unless God has planed it and ordained it to come to pass. Some people have tried to get away from this truth, and reject God’s sovereignty to create. They say that God foresees’ what free creatures will do, independent of God’s plan and purposes. This is not true, as there was nothing for God to foresee in eternity. What ever comes into existence is because God has created it with his purpose and will.
If God was just foreseeing which is impossible, the creatures by default would be the sovereigns of the universe, God would become a mere servant of the creatures, reacting rather than reigning. God did not foresee the future and then write his book of history. History is what God ordained it to be.
As we saw in the last post there has to be an eternal foundation. God’s will is the foundation for finite acts and events and all of history. History has a plan and it will accomplish God’s purpose.
"The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, even the wicked for the day of evil."(Prov. 16;4)
So the degrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
"But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purpose of his heart through all generations. (Ps. 33;11)
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say; My purpose will stand and I will do all that I please. (Isa. 46;10)
"Being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. (Eph. 1;11)
God in his degree’s has absolute freedom to do as he will’s, and yes this is based on God’s good nature as well. Nothing is out of his control nothing is without purpose. Psalm 139 verse 15-16 makes it very clear that all our days have been ordained for us, they were written in a book before they came to be. God has written history and also our days.
In the following post’s I will deal with the problem of evil and also human freedom as it fits with Gods Sovereignty. But for now I will leave us these three passages to think on,
"Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord." (Exod. 4;11)
"I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster, I the Lord, do all these things." (Isa. 45;7)
"Who can speak and have it happen, if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come"(lam. 3;37-38)
The last verse is powerful and demonstrates what God’s degree is. No action will come to pass in the created order unless God has planed it and ordained it to come to pass. Some people have tried to get away from this truth, and reject God’s sovereignty to create. They say that God foresees’ what free creatures will do, independent of God’s plan and purposes. This is not true, as there was nothing for God to foresee in eternity. What ever comes into existence is because God has created it with his purpose and will.
If God was just foreseeing which is impossible, the creatures by default would be the sovereigns of the universe, God would become a mere servant of the creatures, reacting rather than reigning. God did not foresee the future and then write his book of history. History is what God ordained it to be.
As we saw in the last post there has to be an eternal foundation. God’s will is the foundation for finite acts and events and all of history. History has a plan and it will accomplish God’s purpose.
"The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, even the wicked for the day of evil."(Prov. 16;4)
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