Joe
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Does the doctrine of Calvinism hold to the belief that God determined every thought and action of man? To add clarity; that God programmed each man to think, act, and respond as he does likened to robotic machinery.
I really do not know what Calvinism doctrine stands on this, but to explain how I understand some of this from the bible.
Sin in the heavens first, and then the fall of man was foreknown and purposed by God prior to the existence of the world. Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundations of the world. All things were made by God for His pleasure and glory.
The will of the creature is subject to the parameters that God set forth before creation.
Nothing of its own power and volition can overrule God's parameters.(ie: you cannot break the parameter by not experiencing the predetermined effect established by God.)
All things are known by God for He created all things to exist within certain parameters that He established. (ie: gravity, reproduction, sin and death, obedience and life, imputation of an effect from a representative upon another, and etc.)
Nothing of its own power can operate outside of the parameters He established. (ie: drop a basketball and it falls to earth expect nothing else, sin and you are a servant to sin expect nothing else, obey and you are a servant to righteousness and will live expect nothing else, the effects of a representative will be imputed to another expect nothing less, and etc.)
God is sovereign and can overrule a parameter as He sees fit at anytime. (ie: All of the miracles that God performed in the OT and NT through Himself or through others)
God has a will and does as He pleases according to His divine nature. No one can judge God for His actions, for He is the potter and we are the clay...He is God and we are not. We were made by Him for His pleasure and glory. We are 100% subject to the will of God.
As a note: It is so easy to nit-pick something based upon bias, so please do not assume a terminology...I'm preaching this to myself too!
I really do not know what Calvinism doctrine stands on this, but to explain how I understand some of this from the bible.
Sin in the heavens first, and then the fall of man was foreknown and purposed by God prior to the existence of the world. Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundations of the world. All things were made by God for His pleasure and glory.
The will of the creature is subject to the parameters that God set forth before creation.
Nothing of its own power and volition can overrule God's parameters.(ie: you cannot break the parameter by not experiencing the predetermined effect established by God.)
All things are known by God for He created all things to exist within certain parameters that He established. (ie: gravity, reproduction, sin and death, obedience and life, imputation of an effect from a representative upon another, and etc.)
Nothing of its own power can operate outside of the parameters He established. (ie: drop a basketball and it falls to earth expect nothing else, sin and you are a servant to sin expect nothing else, obey and you are a servant to righteousness and will live expect nothing else, the effects of a representative will be imputed to another expect nothing less, and etc.)
God is sovereign and can overrule a parameter as He sees fit at anytime. (ie: All of the miracles that God performed in the OT and NT through Himself or through others)
God has a will and does as He pleases according to His divine nature. No one can judge God for His actions, for He is the potter and we are the clay...He is God and we are not. We were made by Him for His pleasure and glory. We are 100% subject to the will of God.
As a note: It is so easy to nit-pick something based upon bias, so please do not assume a terminology...I'm preaching this to myself too!