The Westminster Confession of Faith Blasphemy

In the old days that phrase was a way to show that you recognize someone as superior even as they allowed something or gave permission for something to happen. I might say to the king "If it pleases the king, may I go preach at the nearby town" for example. When I was ready to leave for the trip, I would tell my servant, "I'm going to preach at the nearby town". I would not use "pleases" to address an equal. It could certainly mean gives pleasure but doesn't have to. We don't use it that way nowadays. But you are left with a choice - either God knew what was going to happen and allowed it or it took him by surprise.

 

And that presents a problem in what manner?

Would not the Son, who was slain prior to the earth being formed, have been a waisted effort had not the garden events taken place?

Perhaps it is that you are stuck in a human time of twenty-four hours (and a bit) in which God is not constricted to abide by such limits.

 

He and others on here are suffering from CDS.

 

Do not the Scriptures teach that all glory excluding nothing belongs to the God?

Do you consider that God was not knowing the results when He planted the garden, placed two “forbidden trees, and created two humans without bellybuttons?

Do you view God as unaware of the end from the beginning?

 

perhaps if you actually drew accurately from the quote, it wouldn’t be nonsense.

 

You said:

You left out “had the power to prevent it from happening, and purpose that it come to pass.”

If you know your friend is going to have an affair, and You can prevent it, and you actually purpose that it happen, then you would be sinful.

God knowing, God having full power, God allowing and even purposing, does not present God as sinful, rather allowing the first Adam to express true freedom of the will. Adam chose to disregard God.

 

Try reading it again. You left an important part out.

 

Did He not?

Read Isaiah 40