Where are all the Acts 2:38 folks (3-steppers)??

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by pelathais

If I gave my youngest son the keys to a car and instructed him to drive across town I would be held responsible in a court of law because, as and adult, I should have foreseen the inevitable outcome of such an act.

And knowing before hand that a person will reject His salvation, God goes ahead and allows that person to be born, indeed God participates in the birth (Psalm 71:6); is not God Himself then responsible for the outcome He has foreseen? (Romans 9:14-15).

So also with salvation. For "it does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy" (Romans 9:16).

Is God responsible for Adam and Eve's sin? or is God responsible for Hitler's atrocities? Is God responsible for our choices, good or bad?

Here's an interesting verse at the beginning of A Tale of Three Kings:

They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not. Hosea 8:4

God was not consulted in choosing some of the kings and princes of Israel. Free will is given to us by God. He sovereignly allows us to make choices. We are responsible for the decisions we make. It's God will for all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

Who's fault is it if all men don't repent? Someone is resisting God's will and obviously, God is allowing them to. Why? Because He has given us a will that is not bound to His own will.

God knowing beforehand the destination of every soul doesn't make Him responsible for the actions of those souls that freely choose to disobey Him and end up lost.