Sovereignty & Human Responsibility and God
Image via Wikipedia The Bibles teaches, that God is sovereign over all things, and yet it also teaches, that man is responsible to turn from his sin and come to God. Here are two great quotes that discuss how we can reconcile these things. The first comes from Andrew Fuller . A fleshly mind may ask, “How can these things be?” How can Divine predestination accord with human agency and accountableness ? But a truly humble Christian, finding both in his Bible, will believe both, though he may be unable fully to understand their consistency; and he will find in the one a motive to depend entirely on God, and in the other a caution against slothfulness and presumptuous neglect of duty. And thus a Christian minister , if he view the doctrine in its proper connexions, will find nothing in it to hinder the free use of warnings, invitations, and persuasions, either to the converted or the unconverted. Yet he will not ground his hopes of success on the pliability of the human...