Alleged paradox in the Bible? Premise: Knowing the difference between these two kinds of the will of God in the Bible will be a key to unlock one of the biggest mysteries or the biggest perplexities in the Bible, namely, that God is absolutely sovereign over all things and disapproves of many of them. That is a very puzzling paradox. God governs and controls all that is and manifestly in the Bible hates much of what happens. That is an insoluble and, I think, contradictory situation unless the term the will of God in the Bible has more than one meaning which it clearly does. So, we want a handle on how to manage this paradox or mystery that God forbids things he brings about. And God commands things that he hinders from happening. That in one sense something is the will of God and in another sense that same something is not the will of God. Without this category of thought, I don’t think you can make sense out of the Bible, the God of the Bible.”

– John Piper

Apologetic response (succinct/not complete),

It is possible that the alleged paradox emanates from a misunderstanding relevant to why God created human life and this Universe in the first place. Mankind is the refuse of an unfathomable cosmic struggle that was initiated by a rebellious, covetous, cherub angel in the Kingdom before the creation of matter, Time, this Universe, our genome; in fact, our creation is in direct response to a Coup d’état initiated in the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Rev. 21:27). God the Father commissioned the Son (John 3:35; John 1, Colossians 1) to create this Universe and subsequently placed the rebellious angel, Lucifer and Lucifer’s warriors, the disobedient angels, upon the Earth to be dealt with apart from the Kingdom and within the constraints of Time and partially constrained by physics (1 John 3:8b; Gen. 3:15).

God’s Plan for Time and Eternity is immutable, fixed, but God, in a desire for intimacy-relationship, infused free will into both His angelic and human creation; therefore, though God’s immutable will for Time and Eternity is fixed, the process by which that Plan/God’s will comes to fruition is “fluid.” God allows His created beings to make their own decisions, good and evil, and God, in His omnipotence, works through and around those decisions to accomplish His perfect will.

God is not a God of moral evil; Isaiah 45:7 in the KJV incorrectly translates the Hebrew “ra” as evil but in context it is more accurately translated as “calamity.” God does not desire or create moral evil but moral evil is an essential possibility in order for good, righteousness, love, to exist with the imperative of free will. It is through man’s evil and the death and destruction over the previous 6000-years that God is demonstrating to His faithful angelic creation exactly why their former boss, Lucifer, was extricated from the Kingdom and why Lucifer and their former brethren, the fallen angels, must be relegated to confinement in Hell forever.

The soon to come Millennial Reign will reinforce the evidence relevant to Lucifer’s horror, culpability as complete peace will reign upon the Earth while Lucifer/the demons are confined for 1000-years and subsequently released to deceive the Nations once again; this will ultimately define Lucifer as the god of lies, death, destruction (John 8:44) and under gird God’s Judgment of Lucifer, the fallen angels, the Beast, False Prophet, the unredeemed of mankind, to manifest subsequent to Messiah Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:11-15).

It is critical to our understanding of God that one realize the teaching of the Holy Spirit extending from The Genesis to the The Revelation that our entire existence within the Realm of Time hinges upon God’s desire to maintain intimacy and love with His faithful angelic creation. It is also imperative that we understand the paradox that Lucifer initiated via His Coup d’état and that God, concerned with maintaining volitional love with His created angels, could not simply destroy Lucifer and his allies as this would have made God into a tyrant.

Understand that God appeared in Time in flesh for one-primary reason, to defeat the works of the Devil by giving Himself as a sacrifice for His created beings thereby defeating evil with selfless love; it is God’s demonstration of sin’s horror and His defeating same through selfless love that God will successfully maintain a loving and intimate relationship with His faithful angelic creation and the redeemed of mankind will also take part in this relationship forever by grace through faith in the work of Messiah-Jesus upon the Cross.

Atheism: the Facade – the Genesis – the Evidence – the Death and Destruction

An earlier OP I shared in certain Groups concerning the façade of atheism and its absence in reality has garnered some hate from those living in the lie of atheism-unbelief. To briefly reiterate, there are no atheists in our World constrained by the Realm of Time as every man/woman having attained an age of reason and possessing at least a modicum of wisdom, discernment, commonsense, intuitively knows that a Creator exists by what has been made in Nature and placed before our eyes; therefore, the Holy Spirit, in Romans 1:18-32, articulates that the atheist, the one who denies God’s reality, is a liar, “fool,” “without excuse.”

With that said, why do atheists exist in ever-increasing numbers within our society and why is their ideology of moral relativism directly attributable to societal self-destruction?

Atheism is a demonic tenet of the religion of Naturalism that finds its doctrine in demonic Darwinism. Darwin’s theory of idiocy is the most proficient progenitor of the cult/sect of atheism subsequent to the beginning of Time. Satan has strategically worked through Darwin’s theory of evolution and its sub-tenet abiogenesis, infused into the America classroom in 1963, to convince many millions of American students that the Biblical Genesis account of creation is a myth; there is no God/Creator; mankind is a cosmic accident emanating by “chance” from a “big bang” in the cosmos of unknown origin and the complex human genome is a product of a primordial soup that somehow gave-way to a simple-cell organism and through billions-of-years and positive genomic mutation manifesting in a perfect environment, this simple cell organism via speciation-adaptation-natural selection manifest into all of the diversity of life we see today on planet Earth.

The tragic resultant of Darwin’s error,

The absence of moral absolutes made possible via a denial of our Creator and His authority over His creation has given-way to a society of people who worship at the throne of narcissism where pleasing the flesh in aberrant sensuality is the objective of life while “freedom” is defined as the absence of all moral restraint; therefore, the rule of law and the enforcement of same will NOT be tolerated as every man and woman are their own “god” and when these “gods” are placed in an environment providing complete equity, sustenance, pleasure, nirvana is achievable and sustainable as mankind is inherently morally, ethically, “good.”

Having observed throughout history the repeated failures of such sociological experiments, an astute and intelligent society would consider anyone espousing Darwin’s errors and Dewey’, Lenin’ and Marx’ idiocy worthy of incarceration in a mental health facility but today, those who believe this ludicrousness walk among us in our ethically, morally, spiritually, mentally, ill society and these victims of demonism identify as atheists, naturalists, evolutionists, Darwinists, humanists, secularists, nihilists, moral relativists, socialists-Leninists, communists-Marxists, progressives, democrats. This is why the protests i.e. riots and looting in America’s streets today and the supporters of terrorist organizations with acronyms such as BLM, ANTIFA, SPLC, ACLU, are inundated with men and women of the Millennial and Gen-Z generations, White-Black-Hispanic-Asian, who fight and clamor for their warped and perverted sense of “freedom” that is nothing but a socialistic-communistic sociological ideology of death wrapped in a dung-covered heap called Democratic Socialism.

America, this sociological tragedy is evidence of God’s wrath incrementally poured-out upon the American people for our rejection of Jesus Christ as King and our murder/mutilation of 61-million babies in the womb subsequent to Satan’s success in our SCOTUS via Roe v. Wade (1973) and our destruction/defilement of God’s Covenant of Marriage via Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). It is Satan and his servants in “atheism” that are instrumental in destroying America’s Constitutional Republic through ideological deceit as the atheist-secularist-naturalist-humanist-nihilist vomit their demonism in our streets through intimidation, violence, murder and capture the heart and mind of America’s demonically deceived leadership while we’re all walking-off the cliff of apostasy and debauchery and defilement and dying in our own moral filth just like so many cultures before us. Our youth have been given-over to worship “the lie” (Genesis 3:5) and though our eyes long for their return, many will not be seeking God’s truth as they are the possession of Satan (Deuteronomy 28:15-65).

God’s warning is coming to fruition in America,

Though given initially to the children of Israel in an agrarian society, the Blessing & Cursing in Deuteronomy 28, relevant to blessing for obedience, cursing for disobedience, is most applicable to the United States in our industrial-technological society today as our Nation was founded and blessed by the Sovereignty of God in Jesus Christ.

18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,

41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.

46 They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,

Atheist logic: A dog is a good boy yet has no god.

Christian response…

“Many” “good” people will live-out their life in the Realm of Time and die in their sin and die in Hell (Matthew 7:13-14). God’s forgiveness and His saving righteousness and grace are not given to the good because we’re all sinners (Romans 3:23) and there is no one that is “good” but God alone (Matthew 19:17), but God gives mercy and grace and redemption to the one who humbles them self and repents of their sin and acknowledges/believes in Jesus Christ as God who died to pay their sin-debt (Romans 10:9-10).

It’s not about being “good”…it’s about Jesus Christ as our Lord and receiving His “goodness” and perfection imputed over our life by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and receiving God’s forgiveness of sin and thereby being prepared to enter the Kingdom of God through the process of sanctification (John 3:16). Without Jesus as your Lord, it matters NOT how good of a boy you are, if Jesus is not your Mediator for sin (1 Timothy 2:5), you will die in sin and die the “second death” in Hell (John 8:24; John 14:6; Rev. 20:11-15).

Theological inquiry on FB: How many wills does God have? Is God’s will always done?

God’s will is NOT always done, allow me to explain. Broadly speaking, God has two-primary objectives (wills) concerning the Realm of Time:

1) Defeat the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8b).

2) Demonstrate to the faithful angelic creation the horrors of sin and demonstrate to those angels His all-encompassing love, mercy and grace by giving Himself as a sacrifice for the salvation of His created beings in Time that have been ravaged by the works of the Devil, a former cherub angel endowed with tremendous authority (Matthew 26:28; Ezekiel 28:11+).

God’s immutable will concerning His Plan for the Realm of Time and Eternity will be accomplished without fail as God has defeated the works of the Devil via the Crucifixion (Genesis 3:15) and God is actively calling all men to repentance and salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord (John 3:16).

The process by which God’s Plan for the Realm of Time comes to fruition is fluid. In other words, God has infused free will into both His angelic and human creation in order that love and relationship with Him can manifest in purity with authenticity (John 3:18). God allows you and me to choose our destiny in life and God, in His omnipotence, is perfectly capable of bringing His eternal Plan to fruition by working through and around our individual choices in this life.

So then, is God’s will always accomplished? No…not in everyone’s individual life as “many” will unfortunately choose to reject Jesus Christ as Lord for the mediation of sin and die in sin and die the “second death” in Hell (John 8:24; Rev. 20:11-15); this is NOT God’s will who desires that all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the Truth (1 Timothy 2:4).