The Biblical Perspective The Bible nowhere suggests that men are free from God’s decretive will or providential governance. In fact, everywhere it affirms just the contrary. It teaches that God’s purpose and his providential execution of his eternal purpose determine all things. This is why Calvin wrote: God’s will is, and rightly ought to be, the cause of all things that are. For if it has any cause, something must precede it, to which it is, as it were, bound; this is unlawful to imagine. For