Quotes About Divine

These two aspects of divine holiness mean that there is no one like God. He is altogether different and superior. In connection to his holiness, the Bible declares that God is unique, and that no one approaches his greatness: "There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God" (1 Samuel 2:2);

Scripture exceeds what men could produce without divine inspiration, but it is not beyond the ability of men to understand.

In other words, moral responsibility does not presuppose human freedom, but it presupposes divine sovereignty. We are responsible not because we are free, but we are responsible precisely because we are not free.

My position is a consistent application of divine sovereignty over everything. It is a denial of any form of dualism or deism. I affirm that God controls everything about everything that is anything, including every aspect of every detail of every human decision and action, in such a way that man has no freedom in any meaningful or relevant sense.

Know that there is good, and that there is evil. These two are not the same, and God does not want us to confuse them. He wants us to be able to tell the difference between the two, and to be wise and possess deep insights concerning goodness, but he does not want us to be skillful regarding how to devise and accomplish evil. For such to occur, we must be knowledgeable with the word of God.

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'" Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

We are not saved by our own goodness, because we have none, but we are saved by God's sovereign mercy.

Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden" (Romans 9:18).

God is sovereign, man is not free – and there is no problem. This is biblical, coherent, simple, and defensible.

Faith is "a gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8) – it is something that God gives, and not something that we produce.

God has made a point of preventing non-Christians from knowing him through their own wisdom.

Salvation is really and wholly from God, from start to finish (Hebrews 12:2). F

The doctrine of divine sovereignty is only a major aspect of a proper understanding and definition of God. And as such, it has a dividing and distinguishing effect.

The fact that God has chosen to speak to us through the Bible means that human language is sufficient, and so it is possible to obtain reliable and detailed information about God from his verbal revelation.

The divine attributes are God's characteristics, the sum of which constitutes the definition of who he is. The

you are dealing with an absolutely sovereign and powerful God.

An understanding of divine holiness should move us to fear God. He is inherently worthy of extreme reverence, and it is a serious sin to deny him of proper worship:

Rather, whoever believes the gospel does so only because God chooses to save him, to change his inner nature, and to produce faith in him.

God has given the Bible a most prominent place in both the history of mankind in general, and in the history of redemption in particular.

The Bible teaches that God has revealed himself through the words of Scripture. Nothing more is needed to settle the issue. It establishes that God is knowable and that human language is sufficient. God is able to tell us about himself, and we are able to understand what he tells us.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God

by the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace.

God is the one who regenerates us, who summons us to faith, who creates and causes faith in us, and who then declares us righteous. Salvation is wholly a work of God.

You must not think that you had the good sense or moral clarity to choose Christ, as if God did not sovereignly and irresistibly cause you to so choose. The doctrine of free will represents the height of impiety and the essence of false religion.