Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Decree to Glorify Himself

This is how I would supply it: First God decrees to glorify Himself, Then he decrees to save some and condemn others, thereafter, to create them both, after that He then decrees to permit the fall of both of them, to finally provide salvation for His elect.

Although the first point - that God first decrees to glorify Himself is really implied in all of the Lapsarian view, I see fit that stating the logical order of God is grounded in the part that God intended first and foremost to glorify Himself and thus went about such a way to do that. The rest of the points show that God before either the elect or the reprobate did anything good or bad, God chose for His good pleasure and thus went about creating a world where He might be glorified in both saving some and condemning others.

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