Sunday, July 28, 2013

G.H. Kersten and Equal Ultimacy

I am not sure, but it sounds like G.H. Kersten would hold to Equal Ultimacy.

God did not passively allow sin, and although according to all His perfections He hates sin, nevertheless, He willed it in order to glorify Himself in righteousness and mercy. "The Lord hath made all things for Himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." (Prov. 16:4) Regardless of the purpose of those who would include the fall in God's knowledge, but say He did not decree it, we must insist that God knows all things by virtue of His eternal decree. Thus God knew that man would fall because He had decreed that man would fall.
G.H. Kersten, Reformed Dogmatic, Pg. 213

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