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Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty & Human Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

If God is in control, are people really free? This question has bothered Christians for centuries. And answers have covered a wide spectrum. Today Christians still disagree. Those who emphasize human freedom view it as a reflection of God’s self-limited power. Others look at human freedom in the order of God’s overall control. David and Randall Basinger have put this age-old question to four...

be willing to agree. But if the farmer proceeds to say, “Therefore I will make no attempt to rescue them,” we would immediately think something is lacking in his love. And suppose by some inexplicable whim he should declare “I have no obligation to save any of them, but out of the goodness of my heart I will save one of them and let the other two drown.” In such a case we would surely consider his love partial. Certainly this is not the picture we find of the God of the Bible who “loved the world” (Jn
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