The Decrees of God - Part 3

Proof of the Doctrine of Decrees

The Scriptures declare that all things are included in the divine decrees. The declare that special things and events are decreed; as , for example, the stability of the physical universe; the outward circumstances of nations, the length of human life; the mode of our death; the free acts of men, both good acts and evil acts.

They declare that God has decreed the salvation of believers; the establishment of Christ’s Kingdom; the work of Christ and of his people in establishing His works.

Decreeing creation implies decreeing the foreseen results of creation. To meet the objection that God might have foreseen the events of the universe, not because He had decreed each one, but only because He had decreed to create the universe and institute its laws. In eternity, God foresaw that the creation of the world and the institution of its laws would make creation its actual history even to the most insignificant details.

But God decreed to create and to institute these laws. In so decreeing He necessarily detailed all that was to come. In line, God foresaw the future events of the universe as certain, because He had decreed to create; but this determination to create all of the actual results of that creation; or, in other words, God decreed those results.

No undecreed event can be foreseen. We grant that God decreed primarily and directly His own acts of creation, providence, and grace; but claim that this claim that his involves also a secondary and indirect decreeing of the acts of free creatures which He foresees will result therefrom. There is therefore no such thing in God has knowledge of an event that is to be, though it does not enter into the divine plan. For to say that God foresees an undecreed event, is to say that He views a future event is merely possible; or, in other words, that He views an event not as it is.

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