What is the relationship between - Sovereignty and Free Will?
Yahu-Bihdi, governor of Hamath, being flayed alive by the Assyrians. HISTORY OF EGYPT, CHALDEA, SYRIA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA by G. MASPERO, Volume VII., Part C. LONDON: THE GROLIER SOCIETY PUBLISHERS (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The relationship between God ’s sovereignty and human responsibility is not instantly obvious, and at first glance it seems paradoxical. But Scripture offers us considerable insight into how these twin truths harmonize within the plan of redemption. The first step in understanding the compatibility between God’s sovereignty and human will is to recognize that they are not mutually exclusive, and Scripture makes this absolutely clear. In God’s design, human responsibility is clearly not eliminated by God’s sovereign control over His creation. That’s true even though evil was included in His grand design for the universe even before the beginning of time, and He uses His creatures’ sin for purposes that are always (and only) good. Indeed, in His infinite wisd