Lol, did you really read what you wrote here? If I use others to bring about evil actions, I'm somehow not to blame for that evil? Total nonsense . Besides, it's a contradiction to say some one freely acts if God is directing thier every action. What you would have is only the illusion of freedom, but in reality, robots.
No, I do not, not at all, it's just a bunch or pretty words that are a clear contradiction of how God can be both all-knowing and not all-knowing at the same time, and is a way of deception if you ask me...
Do you see all of this as "evil" if the greatest and most highest and best good comes out of it in the end, and it was maybe the only way to bring it about, etc, is it still evil?
The statement is inherently contradictory and therefore false. Typically what such statements really mean by "the will of the creature" is that which has been programmed by God, all things being deterministic, essentially puppets of God so that nothing is independent of God's determinism, which logically makes God the author of sin in puppet-like fashion. But sin God is holy, therefore the premise is self-contradictory.
If they never even entered His mind, then did He know, or not know, that they would do or commit them (ahead of time) or not...?
And what exactly do you mean by "decreeing" anyway...?
No, I do not agree and I think it is bordering on absurd to ask for scripture to disprove an absurd theory about predestination simply because a Baptist confession contains it.
Agree. God is entirely sovereign and man is entirely responsible. No, I don't know how to reconcile the two.
This is the tension that exists. God's will shall be done. It requires men to cooperate with God. The first man to do so was Abraham. Others like Moses, Job, David, Elijah - men who walked with God, even though they were flawed. All through history there have been such men. The Apostles, Luther, the Wesley brothers, Watchman Nee and many others. Some are hidden gems so to speak. Few have heard of them yet they are mighty in prayer and in spirit. God works through men and women who are completely consecrated. His will shall indeed be done, albeit with a hiccup or two on the journey.
If you found out that man is not responsible for himself, or his own choices or will(s) or actions, etc, never has been, etc, or that his true free will was, and is, and has never been ever truly free, etc, how would you respond or react to that information, or what would you choose afterward, to either be, act, say, or do, or become, afterwards, etc, anyway, in light of that information, who would you be or become, or how/what would you choose (to be or become) afterwards, etc...?
If there is one "hiccup" there are billions upon billions, like ripples that never stop spreading. Sovereignty and control are two very different things, but people tend to think they are the same for some strange reason. God blows that out of the water when he claims to hold out his hands to a disobedient people who would not respond.
In God's economy, there are no hiccups. He will have his way, whatever that is. There are a lot of mysteries still to be revealed. The church will be cleansed totally and there will be no history of sin. My own life before I was born again is a series of wonders. Even the fact that I lived to 20 years old is amazing. I did not know God. He sure knew me.
