carlosstjohn
Puritan Board Freshman
My question is a question we've all come across before. Can we call God the author of sin?
I want to clarify this: I honestly don't see why calling him the author means that he is a sinner. In other words, calling God the author of sin and him being stained by sin because of his authorship are mutually exclusive. One can exist and not the other. Anytime this topic is come up, there's always this hesitancy because they don't want to call God a sinner. And while I understand that hesitancy and wouldn't want to make that grave mistake either, does it really have to be this way?
I see through the scriptures God's willfulness of ordaining sin and I also see his holiness and perfection always immutable.
Is it possible to, just as we can say Jesus was 100 percent God and 100 percent man or that God is 3 complete persons but One God, say that God is the author of sin but yet not a sinner?
Why is this one topic a topic where a "mystery" cannot be used. We don't fully understand the trinity but we still say 3 persons in 1. We don't understand how a person can have 2 complete natures, but we still affirm it. But when it comes to God and ordaining sin, it seems as if we don't allow the same logic to apply.
So, in summary, I'm not asking if God ordains sin or if he sovereignly plans it. I'm asking why is it such a big deal to call him the author as long as we also affirm that he, himself, is not a sinner in the process.
I want to clarify this: I honestly don't see why calling him the author means that he is a sinner. In other words, calling God the author of sin and him being stained by sin because of his authorship are mutually exclusive. One can exist and not the other. Anytime this topic is come up, there's always this hesitancy because they don't want to call God a sinner. And while I understand that hesitancy and wouldn't want to make that grave mistake either, does it really have to be this way?
I see through the scriptures God's willfulness of ordaining sin and I also see his holiness and perfection always immutable.
Is it possible to, just as we can say Jesus was 100 percent God and 100 percent man or that God is 3 complete persons but One God, say that God is the author of sin but yet not a sinner?
Why is this one topic a topic where a "mystery" cannot be used. We don't fully understand the trinity but we still say 3 persons in 1. We don't understand how a person can have 2 complete natures, but we still affirm it. But when it comes to God and ordaining sin, it seems as if we don't allow the same logic to apply.
So, in summary, I'm not asking if God ordains sin or if he sovereignly plans it. I'm asking why is it such a big deal to call him the author as long as we also affirm that he, himself, is not a sinner in the process.