{"id":2862,"date":"2013-03-28T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2013-04-07T08:09:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T12:09:26","slug":"two-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2862","title":{"rendered":"Two wills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 18:14<\/em><\/p>\n

It is not the Father’s will that anyone, young or old, should perish, i.e., should be lost to the purpose God had for them.\u00a0 It is useful to think of God as having two wills.\u00a0 His ontological will, His original design, so to speak, was that Adam and Eve would multiply and replenish the earth, and fill it with\u00a0righteousness.\u00a0 But, sadly, that did not happen.<\/p>\n

Yet, incomprehensible as it is to our finite minds,\u00a0God knew that it wouldn’t happen when\u00a0He decided to create man—create a universe.\u00a0 And so, in His providential will the Lamb is slain, even from the foundation of the world.<\/p>\n

It is God’s ontological will that no one should perish.\u00a0 But His providential will works with our will, our choice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 18:14 It is not the Father’s will that anyone, young or old, should perish, i.e., should be lost to the purpose God had for them.\u00a0 It is useful to think of God … <\/p>\n

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