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Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: Biblical Perspectives in Tension is unavailable, but you can change that!

Both theology and philosophy wrestle with the tension between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. In Christianity, this tension is particularly acute because God is both omnipotent and benevolent. This tension underlies numerous other questions about the nature of God, the meaning of free will and choice, the concept of divine repentance, the reign of God, and perhaps most of all, the...

to sanctify themselves; and conversely, that responsibility does not entail Yahweh’s passivity in their sanctification. Judges 14:4a The words of 14:4a must not be regarded as secondary additions. Not only do they provide the background to the displeasure of Samson’s parents (14:3), but they provide the framework within which the playing out of his riddle takes on meaning.5 The portrait of Samson is scarcely salubrious. Samson’s insistence on an illicit union, in this passage, is no exception. Yet
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