Jesus stated a self-evident truth of reason when he said “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit” (Matt. Jesus even mourned over Jerusalem and said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” (Matt. Man would be a puppet of God, rather than a rebel against God. God made me do it.” Is God the “the mastermind” behind all the crimes of our society? The opportunity to do what is wrong is a good thing, because every opportunity to do what is wrong is an opportunity to do what is right. It was God who commanded obedience from Adam, but it was the devil that tempted Adam to sin. But as we saw … (In fact, it seems like EVERYTHING is subordinated to glory and power.) There is a real war going on between God and the devil for the allegiance of man’s free will. Calvinism teaches that God prefers sin over holiness in every instance that sin occurs. If God wants sin to occur, so should we! Here the cops are absolutely the. That is, the state of your nature does not necessitate the choices of your will, but the will is free to choose according to or contrary to your nature. The fact of God's sovereignty does not alter any of this; nor does it make God morally responsible for evil. If God secretly decrees sin, God would secretly be sinful! When God, in the beginning, created man, he made him subject to his own free choice. If Calvinism is true, God is the author of sin, evil, innocent suffering and hell. But if the devil is a free moral being, who has chosen to sin contrary to the will of God, then it is God who is good and the devil that is evil! God was trying to form in man a good moral character like He has, while the devil was seeking to create in them an evil moral character like he possesses. 2:17) It is not the God of the Bible which is the author or cause of sin. But if they say that mankind is the second cause of sin, then that would make God and His decrees the first cause of sin! God had created them for a relationship with Him; but now through sin, that relationship with interrupted and disturbed. That is because God’s plan was for holiness, but the devil’s plan was for sin. If God caused all the sin of men, if we are puppets of God or marionettes in the hands of the Divine, and are not free moral agents, then God is the only real sinner in the entire universe and we cannot be justly responsible and accountable for our actions. 21:3). If Calvinism is true, a person is ungodly if they don’t want sin to exist! God wants us to be holy all of the time. God gives peace to the righteous but God destroys the wicked. By giving them a moral law, He gave them the opportunity to be obedient or disobedient. 8:44) because he was the first being to ever tell a lie. If sinners have acted according to the actual will of God, they are not really rebels at all. The God of … I have also wondered how could any lover of holiness be expected to accept Calvinism? They were free to make the right or wrong choice and God wanted them to make the right choice. God had not failed man, since He had done all of His responsibility; but man had failed God by violating his obligation. God did not publicly grieve over man’s sin when secretly He had caused them to do it! When Israel would sacrifice their children to idols, God said to them, “ye pollute yourselves” (Eze. It does not mean that God created moral evil. “Yea, they have chosentheir own ways” (Isa. God blames them and them alone for their sin, clearing Himself from all responsibility. Morally, this world is chaotic and in disarrangement. Despite all these Biblical examples of the will of God being resisted and rebelled against, Tucker said, “What God does not will to be done, cannot be done: and what he wills, must be done.”68 Nothing could be any plainer from the Bible but that the will of God is not always done! 7:11). 4:11). The Hebrew word “committed” actually means to “make,” To believe that He is just, the One who according to His own will, makes us necessarily damnable.“17. God places His actions before the minds of moral agents so that they can see the righteousness of His ways and the rectitude of His doings. 1:2). That is because mankind has been created by God as free moral agents, who have wills of their own, who are capable of choosing His will or rejecting it. After one young convert heard a Calvinist describing Calvinism, he said to him, “Your god is my devil.” There is a lot of truth in that statement. Shouldn’t the will of God be commended, not condemned? God was prepared in the same way that an airplane would have a parachute on it before it crashes. 8:44). If God wants men to be sinful, we should want them to be sinful too! The world chose to do the devil’s will instead of God’s will. 1:16). When men would worship idols and false gods, the Lord said that they were doing what “he commanded them not” (Lev. And is there a doctrine more worthy of our abhorrence and hatred than the doctrine which makes God the author of sin? The moral law was not impossible for them to obey, since they were created in the image of God. To illustrate that someone or something can be the "final cause" of an evil act and yet not be held morally responsible for it, consider these examples: In examples 2 and 3, the perpetrator wants to transfer blame from himself, the efficient cause, to someone else, the final cause in each case. It is important to understand that the decisions of will caused by a free moral agent occur after the motives presented to the mind are considered and contemplated. Pelagius said, “Our most excellent Creator wished us to be able to do either but actually to do only one, that is, good, which he also commanded, giving us the capacity to do evil only so that we might do his will by exercising our own. The objective of warning is that the one who is being warned would make the right choice. With infinite desire, He wants our universe to be sinless and perfect. SECTION II. The devil is evil and is therefore not the author of good, while God is good and therefore is not the author of evil. Michael Horton, author of the new book For Calvinism, responds to Roger Olson’s charge that Calvinism’s logical leads to God being a “moral monster” indistinguishable from the devil. How could anyone praise God for His holiness, saying “holy, holy, holy” (Rev. Calvinism Refuted – Jesse Morrell. 6:10). Calvinists will even try to use the Bible to teach that God is the Creator of sin. God told His people to “put away evil” from among them (Deut. John Calvin actually blamed God for Adam’s fall by saying, “I freely acknowledge my doctrine to be this: that Adam fell, not only by the permission of God, but by His very secret council and decree…”43 How contrary this is to the Word of God which says, “The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works” (Ps. So while they might deny teaching that God is the “author of sin” because He is not the “second cause,” they essentially say that He is the cause of sin because they say He is the first cause of it. 7:18). He is the, My enemy, in a fit of rage over something I have done or said, goes on a wanton spree of vandalism. God Does Not Author Sin. Warning a person about the consequences of their choices takes for granted that they have the ability of choice and assumes that they can choose between two alternatives. God knew that they were capable of obeying His law, which is why He commanded them to do so; and the devil knew that they were capable of disobeying God’s law, which is why he tempted them to do so. SECTION I. 1Co 14:33 – For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. There are insecure mothers who will cause their children to be sick, that they can appear to others to be good mothers for taking care of their sick children, and so that they themselves will feel needed. We are! 4:8), if God secretly decreed the existence of sin when He could have decreed holiness in those instances? The devil was trying to tear down God’s influence over their will by questioning and contradicting God’s warning, while trying to set up his own influence over their will by making empty promises and deceitful incentives. The Calvinistic interpretation of God hardening the heart of the Pharoah , so that he ends up sinning , makes God the author of sin.Similairly , by hardening the hearts of majority of humans and allowing them to remain in the sin of unbelief , God becomes the author of sin according to Calvinism. It is not saying that Satan was a liar from his creation. God grieves over man’s sin and God rejoices over man’s repentance. God wants us to be sinful none of the time. Its efficient cause is the sculptor, insofar has he forces the bronze into shape. If God causes all things, Paul would be lying by saying He is not the author of confusion. God warned Adam ahead of time about the consequences he would face if he made that choice (Gen. 2:17). Is that really what God is like? (Arch-dandy? Adam would be the victim of God’s eternal and secret bullying. Thus, God as arch-…lord? But we, who have manifested it, are able again to reject it.”8 Augustine even said that the “free choice of the will was present in that man who was the first to be formed… he sinned by that free will… ”9 Cornelius Van Til said, “If God does exist as man’s Creator, it is as we have seen, impossible that evil should be inherent in the temporal universe. God said to Adam, “Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof Icommanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” (Gen. 3:11) God was not to blame since God commanded him not to. Theodore Beza, the friend and successor of John Calvin, said, “The fall of man was both necessary and wonderful.”53 Calvinists have taught that God secretly predestined the fall of Adam, and consequently the damnation of our race, so that the atonement of Christ would be needed and He can get the glory of our salvation. He formed Adam in his own image, that is Adam was a sentient and rational being with the potential to be God-like in character through his moral choices.”1. “To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice” (Prov. The reason was because he had decreed their fall, as we may gather from God’s creating the tree of good and evil before their creation…”15 Even Martin Luther unashamedly said that God was actually the cause of sin, so that all sin is caused by God and all sin is unavoidable. Charge: Calvinism Makes God the Author of Sin. Never does Calvin suggest that God forces, coerces, or constrains anyone to sin via an active, efficient agency. 20:31). God must, therefore, be mindful of man, or he cannot be God.”72. God talks about bringing “evil” or calamity to a city to punish their sins (Neh. 15:19; 2 Sam. I can hear the pain in God’s voice and the grief of His heart as He asked, “What is this that thou hast done?” (Gen. 3:13). We were created for the pleasure of God (Rev. How could any Christian pray thinking that? 14:13-14). See that you make not God the author of sin, by charging his sacred decree with men’s miscarriages, as if that were the cause or occasion of them; which we are sure that it is not, nor can be, any more than the sun can be the cause of darkness. “…God is the first efficient cause of everything, but evil has come, not from His first act, but by a second act, an act of creatures. Therefore, either the Bible is right and God does not ordain and work iniquity, or Calvinism is right and God ordains and works evil; but they both cannot be right because they are saying the exact opposite. God takes pleasure in righteousness and God created us for His pleasure. The weapon itself could not be blamed or punished. 5:1-4). Does Calvinism make God the "author of sin"? iii) Ergo, Calvinism makes God the author of sin As Wesley might say, "Such blasphemy this theory of verbal inspiration, as one would think might make the ears of a Christian to tingle!" God is the final cause; not the efficient cause of evil. And why does he include a whole section [1.18.1] titled "No mere 'permission'!"? 3:8). 20:43). Or why would they be upset with me writing an entire book defending free will and refuting total inability, if this too was His Sovereign and irresistible will! The objective of commanding and warning is that the one who is being commanded and warned would make the right choice in light of what was warned about. Therefore God ought to be angry and grieved with Himself if God secretly decreed the existence of sin. God ordained whatsoever comes to pass, not unwillingly, but (as noted previously) by sovereign fiat. Created morally innocent, they were now free to choose what is good and as a result have a good character, or to choose evil and as a result have an evil character. However, Calvinists imply that the fall of Adam was part of God’s plan by asking, “But wasn’t the atonement planned before the fall of Adam?” The answer to this question is both yes and no. In fact, when he decided to rebel against God, he said in his “heart” “I will” five times. Yet, despite the effort and influence of God, they sinned. That being so, this very capacity to do evil is also good – good, I say, because it makes the good part better by making it voluntary and independent, not bound by necessity but free to decide for itself.”4, Clement of Rome, who was the Apostle Paul’s companion, said, “But, you say, God ought to have made us at first so that we should not have thought at all of such things. But Christ was not actually slain until the foundation of the world (Rev. 61:8; Zec. Men make themselves damnable because men make themselves sinful. But if Calvinism is true, God is not only the author of confusion, but He is the author of everything! Tucker asked, “Does, or can, any thing come to pass, and the Lord command it not?”60 We should let the Lord Himself answer this question in vindication of His own character. We rightly distinguish between efficient and final causes (sometimes labeled proximate and ultimate causes). God prefers holiness over sinfulness. All rights reserved. 13:16; 1 Jn. Therefore, sin was not in the mind of God when he created man, neither was man in the mind of God when he created hell. Many Calvinists admit this, but refer to it as a necessary consequence of God’s sovereignty. 4:25; 31:39; Jdg. Doing what was right or doing what was wrong was not determined by their nature, but was determined by their free will. The Bible explicitly tells us that God hates sin (Prov. It is God's own sovereign fiat (authoritative edict). 17 You have a choice between life and death; you will get whichever you choose. No wonder John Wesley said that Calvinism destroys “all the attributes of God, his justice, mercy, and truth, yea, it represents the most holy God as worse than the devil, as both more false, more cruel, and more unjust.”52 The devil has only tempted men to sin, but Calvinism says that God makes them do it! God gave us a moral law and gave us the ability to obey it or disobey it. It is no wonder that many Christians consider “Reformed Theology” to be “deformed theology.” Instead of exalting God, it insults Him! On the contrary, how could they loathe themselves in their own sight for their sins if their actions were caused by God or if their evils were created by the Lord? 1:2) and therefore He did not give Adam and Eve a false impression when He commanded them not to sin, but He actually did not want them to sin. It means that God preferred a sinful universe over a sinless universe, that God preferred rebellion over obedience, and that He preferred the misery of His creatures over their well-being! 12:33). A person’s character is what he is in secret! Sinful humans are the ones who commit sin and are guilty of sin, not God, in the same way that an author is not the one who commits the evil actions of characters in a book. God is an infinite being. Yet, God speaks very differently of His character when He says that He hates the hands that shed innocent blood (Prov. The fact that God punished Adam and Eve for their transgression shows that their transgression was not His will, but was actually the result of their own power, ability, or free will. The decree is eternal, meaning it was issued before the foundation of the world. Unless their actions were caused or created by their own free will, they could not loathe themselves in their own sight. All throughout the Bible, we see God’s condemnation of sin. NO Absolute Evil in the Universe. God is good and wanted man to do what was good. And by the force of this decree it could not be otherwise but that they must sin.”14 Dr. John Edwards said, “He might have hindered the fall, but he would not. God did not say, “I make righteousness and create evil.” Evil is not contrasted with righteousness but is contrasted with peace, because the evil referred to is calamity. Zanchius said, “Both the elect and the reprobates were foreordained to sin, as sin, that the glory of God might be declared thereby.”54 The Bible expressly condemns the maxim: “Let us do evil, that good may come” (Rom. SECTION I. And God would not appear to His universe as “merciful” for pardoning men for doing what He caused them to do! If we don’t want sin to occur, but God wants sin to occur, then we would be ungodly for not wanting sin to occur! In other words, we are not portraying God as reluctantly suffering that which He is powerless to forestall. 1:13) and we are to pray for God to lead us away from temptation (Lk. God the Efficient Cause of Sin, SECTION III. And if God causes sin, it certainly would not vindicate the character of God to say that He is not the author of confusion. 6:18; 12:25; 12:28; 21:9; 2 Kin. How some Calvinists Show that God is not the Author of Sin, Omnipotence cannot pervade, or absolute wisdom guide his arm; if any thing comes to pass and he commands it not.”59 In other words, he is saying that sin is the command of God, instead of what the Bible says, that sin being transgression of God’s commands (1 Jn. If sin was God’s will and God commands us to hate sin, then God commands us to hate His own will! The Hebrew word “do” that is used here means to “accomplish,” “advance,” “appoint,” “bring forth,” “provide,” “make,” “procure,”44 “produce,” or “ordain.”45 That means that “The just Lord will not make, procure, produce, or ordain iniquity.” We are told that, “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he” (Deut. Though God created everything “very good” (Gen. 1:31), including the natures of angels, many of them did not remain good. A secret is that which is intentionally or deliberately hidden from others. In the Scriptures, we don’t see God sending sinners to hell for doing His will, but for rebelling against it. 92:15). Dr. John Edwards said, “If God by his decree did force men’s wills, and so necessitate them to be vicious and wicked, then he might justly be called the Author of Sin.”21 He then went on to say, “The eternal decree is the cause of the necessary futurition of evil acts, for the acts inevitably follow on the decree.”22 And “God did from all eternity will or decree the commission of all the sins of the world, because his permissive will is his true and real will.”23, Toplady said, “Hence, we find every matter resolved, ultimately, into the mere sovereign pleasure of God, as the spring and occasion of whatsoever is done in heaven and earth.”24, Dr. Twiss said, “It is impossible that any thing should be done, but that to which God impels the will of man.”25 He also said, “God is the author of that action, which is sinful, by his irresistible will…”26, Zuinglius said that “God makes angels” and “men sin…”27, Tucker said, “It is certain then, that the existence of sin was the ordination of the divine will… Sin could not have existence, without, or contrary to the divine will: its being, must be the consequent of the divine purpose… Sin is the wise and holy ordination of God…”28 He also said, “As nothing exists contrary to the will of Him who says I will do all my pleasure. The sin and damnation of man proves the resistible will of God and the free will of man. While it is good to put out fires, it is not good to start them! God loves righteousness but hates sin (Prov. It is not biblical. Since God created man a moral being, capable of virtue or vice, He gave them a moral law to influence their decisions. Unless the Bible was written to give us false impressions, God did not want Adam and Eve to sin. Clearly the will of God is not always being done on earth. But as for a ‘Thus saith the Lord’ for the doctrine, there is no such thing to be found between the backs of the Bible.”69. 1:9). We are supposed to pray “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven” because God’s will is better than what is occurring on earth, not because everything that happens on earth is already God’s will! The actual vs. potential state of things is explained in terms of the causes which act on things. God does not tell us to obey, only to decree our disobedience! Is God to blame for all the kidnappings each year? God willed one thing to take place and it didn’t take place, because there are other wills involved. If Adam sinned because God secretly caused him to, God is the real sinner, not Adam! Is this indeed the common teaching of classic Calvinism? If sin is God’s plan, we should rejoice over sin! The idea that God causes the sinfulness of the world so that He could appear to His universe as just and merciful is nonsense and blasphemous. If God exists, man himself must have brought in sin by an act of willful transgression.”10 R. C. Sproul said, “Adam and Eve were not created fallen. To the Calvinists (and other supralapsarians), love and wrath are essentially subordinated to glory. “And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard” (Isa. The Westminster Confession of Faith teaches the very same view I have defended here: That's what Calvin himself taught, and that's what authentic Calvinism has always stressed. He could not charge them for what He was guilty of! He suggested to them that they should disobey God. 10:1) The God of the Bible did not secretly decree that men should sin. 4:11). “To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him” (Ps. And John Calvin said, “Whatever things are done wrongly and unjustly by man, these very things are the right and just works of God.”64 God cannot be a worker of iniquity and not be a worker of iniquity at the same time. Read More. Therefore sin has a cause. Does Calvinism make God the author of sin This looks right to me. 20:13; Ecc. But Israel was told, “…loathe yourself in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed” (Eze. Arminianism is true. 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