What is God’s will for your life? It’s important to have some categories if you hope to answer this correctly.
Read moreDecretive Will
One thing we continued to sideline in the previous conversation was the distinction between the decretive and preceptive will. Rather than leave that distinction unaddressed, this and a follow-on article will seek to explain the distinction.
Read moreAttributing a Will
What is God’s will? This question requires labored definition because we can mean different things by the term ‘will’ itself. In English, we use the word ‘will’ accompanying some other verb in order to make the word future tense. For instance, “I will go to church this coming Lord’s Day; will you? I’m fairly certain Joe will be preaching.” This use of the word ‘will’ is applied to God also, but, as with other things, not univocally. We can speak of things God ‘will do’ in the future. For instance, he will bring a spiritually dead man to spiritual life through the preaching of the gospel. Strictly speaking, the futurity of the event is on the side of creation’s historical progress. For God there is no yesterday and tomorrow, so it is not as though these events are future for him.
Read moreAttributes of the Triune God
It is not as though the three Persons take part in the abstract category of deity.
Read moreSimply God
“God is really complex!” But is he? Today we look a little more at the doctrine of divine simplicity.
Read moreWhat God Is and Isn’t: Principles of Theological Interpretation
We are needy and our neediness is met by the one who stoops to speak to us in words we can understand.
Read moreWhat God Is: Principles of Theological Interpretation
Those perfections in the creature, such as love, goodness, and wisdom, are reflections and effects of the One who is love, goodness, and wisdom.
Read moreWhat God Isn't: Principles of Theological Interpretation
In light of the reality that we must receive Scripture in its plenary teaching, and since Scripture’s telos is the uncreated God, we must precisely define the way in which Scripture speaks to us about God.
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