sovereignty and human freedom, more than any other issue, that has driven many Christians to claim contradictions as a legitimate element of faith. The idea is that logic cannot reconcile divine sovereignty and human freedom. The two defy logical harmony. Since the Bible teaches both poles of the contradiction we must be willing to affirm them both, in spite of the fact that they are contradictory. God forbid! For Christians to embrace both poles of a blatant contradiction is to commit intellectual suicide