Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter by Chapter: 3. Of God’s Eternal Decree

2022-04-03

A class working through the Westminster Confession of Faith—one chapter a week. April 3, 2022. Elder Renton Rathbun. I. God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass:1 yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,2 nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.3 1 Eph. 1:11; Rom. 11:33; Heb. 6:17; Rom. 9:15,18...

A class working through the Westminster Confession of Faith—one chapter a week. April 3, 2022. Elder Renton Rathbun.

I. God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass:1 yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,2 nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.3

1 Eph. 1:11; Rom. 11:33; Heb. 6:17; Rom. 9:15,18 2 James 1:13,17; 1 John 1:5 3 Acts 2:23; Matt. 17:12; Acts 4:27–28; John 19:11; Prov. 16:33

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