Mark

Kay,
Thankyou for at least defining your definition of God’s sovereignty. I have heard this attempt before by those who reject the reformed position and frankly i am unconvinced.
First of all, there is not one passage in Scripture that saids God ‘chose’ to limit himself when he created the world. Like i said this is philosophical reasoning and not based foremost on the Bible. Please highlight scripture to support a doctrine like this.
Second, this makes God changeable. If God can choose to be some sort of ‘less’ God, what stops us from saying that God has chosen to make himself vulnerable, reliant on people and so forth. Oh, wait a minute, this is exactly were theology has lead with ‘open theology’ who use philosophy instead of scripture to say God doesn’t actually know the future! This is where an emphasis on free-will gets exaggerated and simply contradicts the scripture.

Acts 17: 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Either God has determined the plan of this world (including us) or he hasn’t. This text along with a lot of others said God has determined everything in this world. Kay, I am willing to change my view, but only if scripture can show that to me. Please show me scripture to support your definition of God’s sovereignty or ‘chosen’ vulnerability.