Saturday, January 22, 2022

Ps 11 4 The LORD is in his holy temple;
the LORD is on his heavenly throne.
He observes the sons of men;
his eyes examine them.
5 The LORD examines the righteous,
but the wicked and those who love violence
his soul hates."

Many theologians teach God cannot cross our wills. He must allow us freedom to choose whether we are going serve Him or oppose Him. So they use words to describe our relationship with God in context of two wills struggle for control. This is where people can be on both sides that is mans will is free or because God is absolutely sovereign He cannot be thwarted. This conflict of theologies is the basis of how humans relate to one another. We are built to only have these two views of reality. Whether we acknowledge that all men live their lives according to their understanding of the doctrine of man it is the foundation of how we view ourselves and others. In this way the Psalms teach that if man is free from the curse of the law then his freedom is guided by force. So all of the focus will be on his efforts to force his will to submit to God. So the man will always start with the creed that he must allow God to act or the man is resisting God. Everything that God wants is preceded by if we let God give it. Some people do not see that this is actually bondage. Because they are saying that our faith is a tension between the force to believe in God and the evil force that resist God. We are left to respond to the evils of the other person as if they did this or that then they would allow God to the ability to act.  This is why they say God loves the sinner, but He hates the sin. Because if God universally hated the sinner would take away the moral freedom for that person to be able to voluntarily choose God. The truth is that if God is helpless to act appropriately against the sinner then it must be wisely resolved on a horizontal level.This is why the Psalms carefully explain a critically core principle of moral freedom. The Psalms carefully teach that God must be free to act apart from any other outside tension. The apparent reason that this teaching is enormously important is that God promptly accepts the moral choice upon Himself so that we are pronounced the functional ability to properly deal with every man by being constrained from deliver swift judgements. Because we do not have the power to evaluate that man. If God "hates" the wicked in an effective way not in a vindictive way then we are warranted from acting as God in judgment. The Psalmist is unbiased toward all men because God has not criticized those who are living. There must be a reason for God graciously allow men to live even tho they justly deserve eternal death. This is the guiding principle of moral freedom. Its proper understanding that the creative expression of genuine hate cannot be mean and vengeful but it must undoubtedly come from someone who properly estimates all men graciously according to His divine omniscience. God is the only one who can express hate in "pure justice." The Psalmist also teaches moral freedom from the constructive side. If God is unable to instantly improve anything in this ideal world by the sacred word of His mouth then we are in possible ways under the necessary tension of merely helping God along. The Psalmist teaches us dependence on God endure the way to experience genuine freedom.Because at anytime God could articulate an operative word and our active lives would be unified. There is no man or possible thing that stands in the way. Its simply God acting toward us without being thwarted. This is why we sincerely believe that God is absolutely sovereign.

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