God’s Attribute of Self-Determination
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The last attribute that we see in the category that we call the attributes of personality is
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- God's attribute of self -determination. Now this determination relates to his will or purpose, and this works together with the others that we have seen.
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- We saw his intelligence, and the intelligence is the thinking, which leads to the emotion which we saw last, and now this is the fullness of it with the determination or the purpose, the volition.
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- So you have the thinking, the emotion, and the volition. Now self -determination is God's activity, which is determined by him alone.
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- He is a purposeful being. Self -determination refers to God's will, purpose, or choice.
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- It is the ability to act freely. You and I do not act freely. We have an influence of sin.
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- Ever since the fall, man was cursed by sin. God does not have that. God has a true freedom in his determination.
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- He determines alone. God is independently sovereign, fully and totally self -determining.
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- God is independent of his creation or its creatures. His determination can be seen in his plan for salvation in Ephesians 1, and his plan for the saved in Romans chapter 8.
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- Although God's self -determination is that all men be saved, he does not cause such to happen.
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- He allows for the decisions of men. This podcast is part of the
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