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The word “sovereignty” means “one who is above all.” It is the supreme and highest power. The Christian defines the Sovereign Lord as unlimited, independent, with original authority. For fallen man, sovereignty belongs to the state because the state is the source of law. Since the Christian can have no other gods, history is defined appropriately by Augustine as a conflict between the City of...

less than God Himself is being extended to Eve. Unlike Christ (Phil. 2:6), Eve and Adam did attempt to gain equality with God by means of robbery and preemptive seizure. On theological grounds, the serpent’s promise can be put in compellingly equivalent terms: ye shall be sovereign! Satan was extending to man the promise of sovereignty, of man’s lordship over himself. Lordship and sovereignty are virtually synonymous: the attributes of one are the attributes of the other. To be sovereign is to be
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