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In that view, God's power, knowledge, and presence have no external limitations, that is, outside of his divine nature and character. [44] Besides, Arminianism view on God's way of expressing his sovereignty, i.e. his providence, is based on postulates stemming from God's character, [44] especially as fully revealed in Jesus Christ. [45]
According to Wayne Grudem, "the God of the Bible is no abstract deity removed from, and uninterested in his creation". [16] Grudem goes on to say that the whole Bible "is the story of God's involvement with his creation", but highlights verses such as Acts 17:28, "in him we live and move and have our being". [16]
Unconditional election (also called sovereign election [1] or unconditional grace) is a Calvinist doctrine relating to predestination that describes the actions and motives of God prior to his creation of the world, when he predestined some people to receive salvation, the elect, and the rest he left to continue in their sins and receive the just punishment, eternal damnation, for their ...
The overall theme of the Book of Daniel is God's sovereignty over history, [2] and the theme of the tales in chapters 1–6 is that God is sovereign over all earthly kings. [16] Daniel 1 introduces the fundamental question that runs through the entire book, how God may continue to work his plans when all seems lost. [ 12 ]
Daniel 4, the fourth chapter of the Bible's Book of Daniel, is presented in the form of a letter from king Nebuchadnezzar II [1] in which he learns a lesson of God's sovereignty, "who is able to bring low those who walk in pride". Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a great tree that shelters the whole world, but an angelic "watcher" appears and decrees ...
Verse 1 (in the Hebrew) is quoted in Mishnah Tamid 7:4. [20] Verse 1 is also one of the ten verses in the section of Malkhuyot (Sovereignty) which is recited in the Mussaf Amidah on Rosh Hashanah. [21] [16] [22] Verse 4 (in the Hebrew) is said by the seas in Perek Shirah. [16] [23] Psalm 93 is said as a prayer for success in a court case. [24]
Predestination of the elect and non-elect was taught by the Jewish Essene sect, [5] Gnosticism, [6] and Manichaeism. [7] In Christianity, the doctrine that God unilaterally predestines some persons to heaven and some to hell originated with Augustine of Hippo during the Pelagian controversy in 412 AD. [8]
Free Will and God's Sovereignty. A "caustic debate" began about 1990 over "God's sovereignty and human free will". [31] Saying that God governs human choices reduces "angels or humans to robots in order to attain his objectives." [32] God governs "the choices of human beings", but without "cancelling [their] freedom and responsibility". [33]