For everything that is God must either be willing or not willing that they
are. As
Jonathan Edwards correctly stated:
“Whether God
has decreed all things that ever came to pass or not, all that own the being of
a God own that he knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident, that if
he knows all things beforehand, he either doth approve of them, or he doth not
approve of them; that is, he either is willing they should be, or he is not willing they should be. But to will that they
should be, is to decree them.”
This is both
biblical and logical. But if God is willing that something should be yet it does not transpire, then the only alternative is that He is not
able to bring it to pass.
With that in
mind let me ask my Conditionalist friends within the “Primitive” Baptists a few
questions, worded in such a way that really exposes what it is they are
affirming when they divorce the subjective experience away from the eternal salvation
of the family of God.
Is God unable or unwilling to bring the gospel to all of His
elect?
Is God unable or unwilling to convert all of His elect?
Is God unable or unwilling to convert “regenerated atheists”?
Is God unable or unwilling to convert “regenerated idolators”?
Is God unable or unwilling to impart evangelical faith to all
of His elect?
Is God unable or unwilling to impart evangelical repentance
to all of His elect?
Is God unable or unwilling that all of His elect come to
know His Son?
Is God unable or unwilling to save all of His elect from
their ignorance?
Is God unable or unwilling to give all of His elect a zeal which
is according to knowledge?
Is God unable or unwilling to experimentally sanctify all of
His elect?
Is God unable or unwilling that all of His elect grow in
grace?
Is God unable or unwilling to convert His elect at the
moment they are regenerated?
Is God unable or unwilling to preserve His elect in
holiness?
Is God unable to unwilling to use instrumentality for His
own glory?
Is God unable or unwilling to ordain all which comes to
pass?
Is God unable or unwilling to save His people from the
practice of sin?
Is God unable or unwilling to grant what He commands?
What say ye?
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