But humanly we cannot reconcile them. That great Baptist preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, was once asked if he could reconcile divine sovereignty and human responsibility. “I wouldn’t try,” he replied, “I never reconcile friends.” Friends? Yes, friends. They are both in the same book, the Bible. For further study on this point, I recommend the following books: A Southern Baptist Looks at Predestination, by P. H. Mell Abstract of Systematic Theology, by James P. Boyce Manual of Theology, by John
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