Wednesday, June 8, 2016

God is either equally in control of all things or he is not

Winnen Russ says, First of all, Park, as u will see below, the concept of *equal* ultimacy demonstrates the absolute sovereignty of God. First of all, lest we be found talking to our selves, we will seek to define our terms. What is "ultimacy" anyway (before we get to equal or unequal adjectives). Ultimacy is the idea of what is *ultimately* the reason for everything being as it is. And Scripture says that ultimately speaking it is the will of almighty God. Why is your name Park rather than John? Well, your parents named you that. But ultimately speaking the *only* reason for your name is the will of God--God willed that it should be so. And if God is absolute ruler in His universe as Scripture always and in every place proclaims, the ultimate reason for *everything* being as it is is the will of God. Many Calvinists today believe in what they call "Unequal Ultimacy." This has to do with the Elect and reprobate. Ultimately speaking, these Calvinists admit, the reason a man goes to heaven is the will of God. But then they turn around and say that ultimately speaking the reason a man ends up in hell is *not* the will of God but something that the man himself *did*. Is the final destination of the reprobate the *one* thing in the entire universe over which God's will has *no* control? Scripture tells us that there is *nothing* over which God's will is not the ultimate deciding factor. And so the fact that the Calvinists (and RC $proul is a major player in this--read his classic best-seller Chosen by God and you will see this) insist that though the final destination of the Elect is ultimately owing to the will of God, the final destination of the reprobate is owing to their doing *bad stuff*. This is not only outrageous but it shows (and please somebody tell me where I'm wrong if I am here) clearly that these Calvinists really and truly believe that the reprobate ultimately do not end up in hell owing to the will of God *and* the Elect do not end up in heaven ultimately owing to the will of God. The reprobate end up in hell because they did bad stuff and the Elect end up in heaven because they did good stuff! Unequal ultimacy is works religion. There's no way around this. Or am I wrong?

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