"It is not in harmony with the Scripture ideas of God that innocent men, men who are not contemplated as sinners, should be foreordained to eternal misery and death. The decrees concerning the saved ‘and the lost should not be looked upon as based merely on abstract sovereignty. God is truly sovereign, but this sovereignty is not exercised in an arbitrary way. Rather it is a sovereignty exercised in harmony with His other attributes, especially His justice, holiness, and wisdom. God cannot commit sin; and in that respect He is limited, although it would be more accurate to speak of His inability to commit sin as a perfection. There is, of course, mystery in connection with either system; but the supralapsarian system seems to pass beyond mystery and into contradiction.‘" - Loraine Boettner
Now a couple of weeks ago I posted a link of what appeared to be from Loraine Boettner's work. His conclusion is that the Supralapsarian system seems to pass beyond mystery and into contradiction. My question is how? From what he just wrote it is really difficult to see where the Supralapsarian leads to such things. The Supralapsarian need I say it more than once says that God choice was apart from any foreseen works whether those works were good or bad. That God is not at liberty to dispense His grace as He pleased is quite the contrary of what the Bible says. God at some point in time decided to create. I find it interesting that he speaks against Abstract sovereignty - I also wonder what he means by such things, especially when he proclaims that this is mystery. By Abstract sovereignty he does not define but merely speaks of it. Saying that God is Simple is also abstract does it make it meaningless or mysterious? Of course not. Some theologians do not believe in such qualifying rules.
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