October 12, 2006

Theology from Dad

Recently my Dad posted the following comment on my bro's blog:

[W]hile it is absolutely true that salvation is all of God from beginning to end, it is also true that God reveals the process in a wonderfully seamless "dance" in which he seeks and woos and appeals and man responds in such a way that the man can say "I believe." Those who are married to free will have a difficult time with those passages where God's elective and regenerative sovereignty are held forth (such as Ephesians 1). However, those who are married to soevereignty have a difficult time with those passages where God clearly appeals to the will and presents himself at times as the seeker and at other times as the one responding to the seeker. Thus, Paul says - it is a mystery. Neither sovereignty nor free will are the hub of the wheel around which all else turns. God as God in the way that He has revealed Himself and not as we want to categorize him is the hub of the wheel. "Thus - let God be true but every man a liar.

That's my Pa!

Posted by Andrew on October 12, 2006 2:23 PM.