Author : M. M. Ninan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-08-04
ISBN 10 : 197433192X
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (743 downloads)
Download Sovereignty, Freewill and Salvation PDF Full Free by M. M. Ninan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the early church began to establish as institutional churches, it became necessary to make it clear what Christianity means. One of the major problem they faced was the problem of God's sovereignty, the freedom of will of man and how salvation of man is related to them. If God alone existed with total sovereignty over all with the Omni properties, it leaves no place for a human (for that matter for any being) to exist If God is Omni-Present and He fills all dimensions of existence, where will man exist? If God is Omni-Scient, If He knows the past, present and the future and everything must be predestined even long before you were born, then where is the freedom of choice. If there is no freedom of choice that leaves no responsibility on man with respct to his action. Even every act including sin is determined before all creation, leaves no responsibility on on the person who does it -(He has to do it) and it will be injustice to punish the person for something on which he had no power. It is the Omni-potent God who does everything including sinning; indirectly through his creation. God will then become the author of sin even though it is done by man. Thus we see that if God is Sovereign with all the Omni, then humans are simply robots and are not really responsible to their actions. It is all preprogrammed into the creation, planned even before creation by the creator. If this is the reality, then the whole story of human fall, cross, resurrection, heaven and hell are only a child play. God himself turns into a cruel monster and the creation reduces to a machine. The bible, the Christian scripture as we have it today, defined through generations, do support both the sovereignty of God and the freewill of man. Bible is clear that "We move and have our being in Him." It is this paradox that was being grapled by theologians through the ages. They form two groups: Predestinarians and Freewillians. If God is real and the creation is real how can we maintain sovereignty of God and Freedom of the real Sons of God?. It is this struggle that is being traced in this book.