Is true that we are the masters of our own lives or is God actually directing everything?
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Stumpmaster
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A Four Dimensional Framework to describe the interactions between God and man.
I believe God has created us with a dimension of freewill which He wants us to exercise in harmony with His Will as expressed in His Word and evidenced in His Work.
1. Foreknowledge - God always knows everything, if He doesn't then He isn't God.
2. Predestination - God predestines elements of existence, such as the Laws of Nature, the criteria for salvation, and the outcome of Judgment Day.
3. Freewill - God calls everyone to repentance and actively works on our freewill to lead us to repentance from dead works and to faith towards Him.
4. Divine Intervention - God knows those who are His and does whatever He wills to do according to His wisdom, mercy, and grace.
- None of these is mutually exclusive of the others, and in His eternal foreknowledge God is always intimately acquainted with all those who will eventually populate heaven, and has predestined them to be conformed to the image of His Son.
- Sin is literally "missing the mark", and is always in conflict with the ultimate Will of God for His Creation.
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