Tag Archives: Holy Counsel
- June 27, 2008
- I Do Not Permit a Calvinist to Use “Permit” Language– also tagged Arminianism, Calvinism, Calvinist, Calvinists, Cause God, Christ Shine, compatibilistic freedom, Confession Of Faith, Desire, determinism, Divine Justice, Eternity, Evil Mind, Evils, Free will, Glory Of Christ, God Didn, John Calvin, John Piper, libertarian freedom, Rhetoric, Scripture, Soteriology, Suggestion, Theology, Westminster Confession Of Faith, Wise God
Often when discussing Calvinism with my Reformed friends, I hear them use language like “God allowed/permitted sin.” This kind of rhetoric seems strange, though, coming from a group of people who believe, as the Westminster Confession of Faith says, that “God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own [...]