The Bible says:
? I know that you can do anything and that none of your plans can get frustrated (Job 42:2).
- ? Not all the inhabitants of the country have a reputation for him; and.
- According to his will.
- Works with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth; there’s no one who can stop his hand or say.
- What are you doing?(Dan.
- 4: 35).
? Our God is in heaven and does what He wants (Ps 115:3; cf. Ephesians 1:11).
And on the other hand, he says
? Thy kingdom is coming; Thy will be done, on earth as in heaven (Mt 6:10).
How can these two truths be reconciled?
Another example
? Murder is not God’s will (Ex 23:7);
? Murder on the cross of the Son of God was God’s will (Acts 4:27-28).
Was Christ’s death god’s will or not?
So, is the Bible contradictory? What happens is that the term can be used in different ways, in the video below, R. C. Sproul explains the difference between the secret will (or decree?Decree) and the revealed (or prescriptive) will? Precepts, commandments).
“Do things hidden from the Lord our God belong? [29:29]. This refers to what we call the gods of the “hidden will. “Now, usually, when we talk about the? God’s hidden will?We have in our minds the ‘decisive will’. Gods, and when people say to me, “What is God’s will for my life?” I say, “Remember that the Bible uses the phrase” God’s will?in many different ways “. about God’s will is what we call the “defamatory will”; And?decree a will of God is God’s will by which He sovereignly does all that He wants to happen. It is sometimes called “the absolute will of God,” or simply God’s sovereign will,” or, in theology, “God’s real will. “But, in general, we talk about “decisive will”? Gods, in other words, when God sovereignly decrees that something must happen, this event must certainly happen.
The Bible often speaks of God’s specific counsel. When God decreed, from all eternity, that Christ would die on a cross in Jerusalem, at a particular moment in history, that event must certainly occur. This happens through God’s determined counsel or will. Is that what we’re talking about when we mean will?Gods, that will that God makes materialize by the absolute power of his sovereignty. It’s irresistible, it has to happen. When God calls the world to existence, he comes into existence, he cannot begin. Lights cannot cease to exist when God says, “Be the light. “It’s God’s deceptive will.
Now we are also talking about “God’s will. “Do we understand that he? Decree will? God cannot be resisted. God’s preceptive will, on the other hand, can not only be fought by us, it is resisted all the time. God’s preceptive will is a reference to God’s law; to his commandments. It is God’s will that you have no other god before him. Now, when people call me and say, “How can I know God’s will for my life?” I want to ask you, “What do you mean?a?” Are you talking about the will to decree?Are you talking about the hidden will? If you are talking about God’s hidden will, the first thing you need to understand is that it is hidden.
And when people say to me, “What does God want me to do in this kind of situation?” I say, “How am I supposed to know this?” I study theology, but I cannot read the mind of God, all I can do is read the Word of God, and what the Word of God does is give me His revealed will, and it is a task enough to try throughout my life. , to discover all that God has revealed in this book. If you ask me about it, I can help you, but if you ask me about God’s hidden will, you ask the wrong person, because I have no idea what God thinks. of what did not reveal?
Calvin commented on this point, said, “Where God shuts his holy mouth, I will give up research. “I repeat: “Where God shuts his holy mouth, I will renounce research. “Now, translating this into In Modern Language, we would say something like, “God’s hidden will is none of your business, that’s why it’s hidden. “
By: R. C. Sproul. Original: What is the difference between God’s depressive and preceptive will?Excerpt from website ligonier. org. © 2012 Ministries Ligonier
Translation: Vin-cius Musselman Pimentel? Faithful Editor © All Rights Reserved
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