Renniks
Well-Known Member
God gave men free will. God is the Potter and where does that concept come from?You really know how to weaken God and make the man powerful by your free will, this time as to have power to break even what God has predestined.
Do you consider yourself foreknown by God Renniks?
If you do, do you believe you are also predestined by God to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ?
If you do, do you have the power to prevent what God has predestined?
A reminder: God is the Potter, man is the clay. God is the Creator, man is the created.
Tong
R0066
Jeremiah 18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, 8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
11 “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’ 12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.’”
God shapes people who allow him to shape them. He punishes those who follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
God does not force anyone to come to him or remain his.