Scott Shahan
Puritan Board Sophomore
If God is Sovereign, then He can change His mind. Is that right?
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If God is Sovereign, then He can change His mind. Is that right?
?If God is Sovereign, then He can change His mind. Is that right
Speaking as one raised in the wonderful UMC, to even establish a dialogue with theological liberals you HAVE to establish inerrancy. At least with our evangelical friends, we can usually force them (after emphasizing Sola Scriptura) to chew on a Scripture they don't like. Liberals can just snip it out of Scripture.That is helpful, I was talking to a Methodist pastor friend of mine and he was arguing this question with me. Their way of thinking and believing is a little scary. His denomination doesn't hold to the Scripture as being inerrant. So when I mention Hebrews 13:8, that seems to fall on deaf ears. Maybe when I am talking to these liberals I feel like I am
So he's gone from asking silly declarations (If God is so sovereign, he can _____), to saying, in essence, that the only way in which God has revealed Himself is in Christ? Is this guy a modalist? God is 3 persons, One God. All three are not manifested at different times but coexist at all times. I say don't cast your pearls before swine. He cannot get around the Sovereignty of God in Scripture, without denying it. Christ Himself talks about it all throughout the gospel of John, as both I and the better Josh have previously noted. There's one major problem with his whole focus. He seems to be saying that the truth and fact of God's sovereignty is a hidden thing. I believe Scripture has made it abundantly disclosed, revealed, clear, open, yada yada yada.
Focusing on Christ is fine, ...so long as we remember he came to reveal the Father (or so he said!). His Spirit, which Christ claimed to be sending to us, is supposed to lead us into ALL truth, presumably including truth about the Holy Spirit himself.
People pitting one part of divine revelation against another ... sad. Working out the connections and the harmony--that's Systematic Theology, brother!