There’s this divide amongst Christians when it comes to God’s soverignty. Group one characterises the group two’s view as we’re robots and God has scripted everything and we’re just moving through the motions, and group two considers group one’s perspective as we’re entirely free agents and God is basically watching to see what we’ll do, crossing his cosmic fingers and maybe dropping a few incentives or putting up a few roadblocks along the way. ...
Note: I originally wrote this to help clarify the 1 Tim 2:1-8 passage, I have reworked it for this format in case it’s helpful for others. This post is written through a reformed understanding of God & His work. While I’d enjoy diving deeper and unpacking that topic, this post seeks to dive deeper into a specific outcome of a of the pillar of “Calvinism” namely, the scope (not value) of Christ’s atonement. ...
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control Galatians 5:22-23 ESV A quick google search for “fruit of the spirit” results in images like this: While these are lovely, heartfelt images created with great intentions, the “fruit” is depicted as several distinct kinds of fruit, sometimes all growing from a single tree, other times depicted separately. But doesn’t quite work logically or botanically. ...