RE: How far reaching are God's powers?
November 11, 2020 at 8:12 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2020 at 8:20 pm by HappySkeptic.)
(November 11, 2020 at 8:01 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Today I'm wondering how moral incompetents can be morally responsible. You have been very insistent that you believe both things to be true. That we are both incompetent, and responsible. You must have worked that out in your head some way, and I would very much like to understand how.
He seems to follow Calvinist teaching. It has always made no sense, but here it is -- people are evil because its their nature, and they deserve punishment for it, because they are evil. God can choose to enlighten the elect by grace to become moral agents and choose to do good. Everyone else is done for.
So, the non-elect are not moral agents. They are bound by evil. It doesn't matter if it wasn't their choice, their punishment is "just" because of their evil nature. Only believers can choose to do good (and that belief is a gift from God - also not their choice).