CrossLinks Topical Index - SO


so : love - action
so - loved : love - action
So Great Salvation, Charles Ryrie : Ref-1183
So Great Salvation, Charles Ryrie - Cross-0164 - Ryrie, Charles, So Great Salvation : Ref-1183
So Great Salvation, Charles Ryrie - Ryrie, Charles, So Great Salvation : Ref-1183
soap : soap - Christian's bar of
soap - Christian's bar of : 1Jn. 1:9
social : giving - conservative vs. liberal ; gospel - social - AGAINST ; gospel - social benefits
social - benefits by true gospel : gospel - social benefits
social - gospel - AGAINST : gospel - social - AGAINST
social - gospel vs. fundamentalism : giving - conservative vs. liberal
social action : injustice - fight
social action - Christian : injustice - fight
socialism : property - private
socialism - AGAINST : property - private
sod : hermeneutics - Jewish classical
sod - hermeneutics : hermeneutics - Jewish classical
Sodom : Jerusalem - called Sodom ; Sodom - Canaanite city; Sodom - compared with; Sodom - prideful; Sodom - sin of
Sodom - Canaanite city : Gen. 10:19
Sodom - compared with : Isa. 1:10; Isa. 13:19; Jer. 23:14; Lam. 4:6; Luke 10:12; Rev. 11:8
Sodom - Jerusalem called : Jerusalem - called Sodom
Sodom - prideful : Eze. 16:49
Sodom - sin of : Gen. 13:13; Gen. 18:20; Gen. 19:5; Eze. 16:49-50; 2Pe. 2:7-8

"Ezekiel, who makes abundant use of the book of Leviticus, describes various sins of Sodom (Ezek 16:48–49), then concludes, “They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it” (Ezek. 16:50). This indicates that the “abomination” committed by Sodom led to their destruction. Ezekiel's reference to Sodom's “abomination” uses the singular form of the term toevah, and that term is used in the singular only twice in the book of Leviticus, when same-sex intercourse is called an abomination in Lev. 18:22, and when the death penalty is prescribed for it in Lev. 20:13. The four other instances of the term in Leviticus are in the plural, making it likely that Ezekiel uses the term from Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 to reference the same-sex intentions of the men of Sodom." James M. Hamilton, How to Condone What the Bible Condemns: Matthew Vines Takes on the Old Testament, in Ref-1493, 25-41, p. 35.


sodomites : Deu. 23:17; 1K. 14:24; 1K. 15:12; 1K. 22:46; 2K. 23:7; Job 36:14

"In 1732 The Weekly Miscellany, London’s foremost religious paper, published an article deploring the prevailing conditions -- an article later summarized as follows: ‘It broadly asserts that the people were engulfed in voluptuousness and business, and that a zeal for godliness looked as odd upon a man as would the antiquated dress of his great grand-father. It states that freethinkers were formed into clubs, to propagate their tenets, and to make the nation a race of profligates; and that atheism was scattered broadcast throughout the kingdom. It affirms that it was publicly avowed that vice was profitable to the state; that the country would be benefited by the establishment of public stews [brothels]; and that polygamy, concubinage, and even sodomy were not sinful.’" Ref-1305, p. 28.


soil : root - shallow
soil - shallow : root - shallow
sola scriptura : Karaites - fundamentalists
sola scriptura - Jewish : Karaites - fundamentalists
solar : Ref-1555 ; tribulation - duration of great
solar - archaeology - eclipse : Ref-1555
solar - eclipse : Ref-1555
solar - year : tribulation - duration of great
solar - Young, Rodger C., How Lunar and Solar Eclipses Shed Light on Biblical Facts : Ref-1555
solar - Young, Rodger C., How Lunar and Solar Eclipses Shed Light on Biblical Facts - eclipse : Ref-1555
solar system : Alpha Centauri - perspective
solar system - perspective : Alpha Centauri - perspective
solar year : calendar - Hebrew - intercalation - 19 year cycle ; calendar - Hebrew - intercalation - none - luni-solar
solar year - calibrates lunar calendar : calendar - Hebrew - intercalation - none - luni-solar
solar year - vs. lunar year - intercalation - 19 year cycle : calendar - Hebrew - intercalation - 19 year cycle
solas : solas - five
solas - five :

"At the Diet of Worms in A.D. 1521, John Eck sought to discredit Luther's teachings of faith alone (Sola Fide) by grace alone (Sola Gratia) through Christ alone (Sola Christus) based upon the Scripture alone (Sola Scriptura) to the glory of God alone (Sola Deo Gloria) by arguing that such teachings cannot not be found in the teachings of the popes, priests, and church fathers." Andy Woods, The Rapture, Part 10, SpiritAndTruth.org, [http://www.spiritandtruth.org/teaching/documents/articles/138/138.pdf] accessed 20130210.


soldier : pacifism - against
soldier - profession implicitly endorsed : pacifism - against
soliciting help : Rom. 15:24; 2Cor. 1:15-16
Solomon : anointed - Solomon twice; chronology - B.C. 0932 - Solomon - death - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 0932 - Solomon's Reign Ends - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 0969t - Solomon’s sole reign begins - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 0971 - Solomon's reign begins (coregent with David) - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 0971 - Solomon's reign begins - Finegan ; chronology - B.C. 0986 - Solomon born - Klassen ; chronology - B.C. 0994 - Solomon born - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 1015 - Saul - reign - end - Newton ; Solomon - anointed from horn; Solomon - anointed twice ; Solomon - author of Ecclesiastes; Solomon - chosen; Solomon - God appears to; Solomon - idol worshipper; Solomon - kingdom - divided; Solomon - oldest son?; Solomon - Pharaoh’s daughter ; Solomon - promise to be king; Solomon - proverbs of; Solomon - sin of ; Solomon - ungodly; Solomon - wisdom; Solomon - wives corrupted; tabernacle - Solomon; temple - Solomon - date; temple - Solomon - dedication; temple - Solomon - location; temple - Solomon - size ; temple - Solomon to rebuild
Solomon - anointed from horn : 1K. 1:39
Solomon - anointed twice : anointed - Solomon twice; 1K. 1:39; 1Chr. 23:1; 1Chr. 29:22

"there were two anointings of Solomon as coregent—1 Kgs 1:39; 1 Chr 23:1; 29:22." Ref-1311, p. 227.


Solomon - author of Ecclesiastes : Ecc. 1:1; Ecc. 1:12; Ecc. 1:16; Ecc. 2:7
Solomon - born - date - Klassen : chronology - B.C. 0986 - Solomon born - Klassen
Solomon - born - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0994 - Solomon born - Steinmann
Solomon - chosen : 1Chr. 28:5-7; 1Chr. 29:1
Solomon - coregent reign begins - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0971 - Solomon's reign begins (coregent with David) - Steinmann
Solomon - death - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0932 - Solomon - death - Steinmann
Solomon - God appears to : 1K. 3:5; 1K. 9:2; 1K. 11:9
Solomon - idol worshipper : 1K. 11:5; 2K. 23:13
Solomon - kingdom - divided : 1K. 11:11-13; 1K. 11:31-39; 2Chr. 10:15
Solomon - oldest son? : 1Chr. 3:5; 1Chr. 14:4; 2S. 5:14; 2S. 12:24; Pr. 4:3
Solomon - Pharaoh’s daughter : 1K. 3:1; 1K. 7:8; 1K. 9:16; 1K. 9:24; 1K. 11:1; 2Chr. 8:11

"At the height of the Egyptian Empire the pharaohs married princesses from many countries but would not deign to send their own princesses abroad. But in the postempire years (after 1200 b.c.) the Egyptians could not afford to be so particular. The fact that Solomon married a pharaoh’s daughter is proof both of the prestige of the Israelite king and of the decline of Egypt in the tenth century." Ref-1521, p. 96.


Solomon - promise to be king : 1K. 1:17; 1K. 1:30; 1Chr. 22:10
Solomon - proverbs of : 1K. 4:32; Pr. 1:1; Pr. 25:1; Ecc. 12:9
Solomon - reign - end - Newton : chronology - B.C. 1015 - Saul - reign - end - Newton
Solomon - reign begins - date - Finegan : chronology - B.C. 0971 - Solomon's reign begins - Finegan
Solomon - reign ends - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0932 - Solomon's Reign Ends - Steinmann
Solomon - sin of : Deu. 17:17; 1K. 11:1-11; 1K. 11:33; 2K. 23:13; Ne. 13:26

✪ See Solomon - idol worshipper.


Solomon - sole reign begins - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0969t - Solomon’s sole reign begins - Steinmann
Solomon - tabernacle : tabernacle - Solomon
Solomon - temple - date : temple - Solomon - date
Solomon - temple - size : temple - Solomon - size
Solomon - temple dedicated : temple - Solomon - dedication
Solomon - temple location : temple - Solomon - location
Solomon - to rebuild temple : temple - Solomon to rebuild
Solomon - ungodly : 1K. 11:4
Solomon - wisdom : 1K. 4:29; 1K. 10:23; 1Chr. 1:10; 2Chr. 9:5-6; 2Chr. 9:23
Solomon - wives corrupted : Deu. 17:17; 1K. 11:1-3; Ne. 13:26
Solomon's temple : temple - built in 7 years; tooling - Solomon's temple - offsite
Solomon's temple - built in 7 years : temple - built in 7 years
Solomon's temple - tooling offsite : tooling - Solomon's temple - offsite
Solomon’s temple : chronology - B.C. 0967 (Bul) - Solomon’s temple - construction ends ; chronology - B.C. 0967 (Ziv) - Solomon’s temple - construction begins
Solomon’s temple - construction begins - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0967 (Ziv) - Solomon’s temple - construction begins
Solomon’s temple - construction ends - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0967 (Bul) - Solomon’s temple - construction ends
son : Antichrist - perdition of ; David - Son as Lord ; David - son opposes; father - access through Son; man - son of as explicit title of Messiah; mother - faith instilled in son; prodigal - son; sign - Son of Man ; sin - confessing ancestor's ; son - bad from good father; son - descendant; son - descendant - not ; son - foolish; son - pastor ; Son - provides access to Father; son - unrighteous
son - access to father : father - access through Son
son - bad from good father : 2K. 21:1-11; 2Chr. 33:1-9
son - confess father’s sin : sin - confessing ancestor's
son - David calls Lord : David - Son as Lord
son - David's opposes : David - son opposes
son - descendant : 2Chr. 22:9
son - descendant - not : Dan. 5:11

"The inscription [on the Obelisk of Shalmaneser] refers to Jehu as the “son of Omri.” Of course, Jehu was not an actual descendant of Omri, but rather was the one who exterminated Omri’s line in order to become king himself. The word “son” usually means a descendant, but in this case it simply refers to an unrelated successor in office." Bryant G. Wood, Israelite Kings in the Assyrian Inscriptions, Ref-0066, Vol. 24 No. 2 (Spring 2011), 38-42, p. 41.


son - faith instilled by mother : mother - faith instilled in son
son - foolish : Pr. 17:21; Pr. 17:25
son - of Man - Messiah : man - son of as explicit title of Messiah
son - of perdition : Antichrist - perdition of
son - pastor :

"Nietzsche, for instance, did his very best to share the noble pagan's revulsion at the sordid social sediments the early church continuously dredged up into its basilicas (though, middle-class pastor's boy that he was, he never became quite as effortlessly expert in patrician disdain as he imagined he had)." Ref-1290, p. 169.


son - prodigal : prodigal - son
Son - provides access to Father : Luke 9:48; Luke 10:16; John 3:18; John 5:23; John 12:44; John 15:23-24; John 16:27; 2Jn. 1:9; 1Jn. 2:23; 2Jn. 1:9
son - royal affiliation : son - descendant - not
son - sign of son of man : sign - Son of Man
son - unrighteous : 1S. 2:12; 1S. 2:22; 1S. 8:3-5; 2K. 21:3; Eze. 18:10
son of Father : Barabbas - son of Father
son of Father - Barabbas : Barabbas - son of Father
son of God : son of God - Adam ; son of God - angels ; son of God - believers ; son of God - David's offspring; son of God - directly; son of God - in OT; son of God - is son of man; son of God - Israel; son of God - Jesus claims; son of God - title of deity
son of God - Adam : Gen. 1:27; Gen. 2:7; Luke 3:38; Rom. 5:14 (?)

✪ Questionable: Rom. 5:14 (?);


son of God - angels : Gen. 6:2; Job 1:6; Job 2:1; Job 38:7; Ps. 89:6 (?)

✪ Questionable: Ps. 89:6 (?);


son of God - believers : John 1:12; Rom. 8:15; 2Cor. 6:18; Gal. 4:7; Heb. 2:10-12; 1Jn. 3:1; Rev. 21:7

✪ Believers who are sons of God are also considered as spiritual offspring of Jesus (Isa. 53:10; Heb. 2:10-12).


son of God - David's offspring : 2S. 7:14
son of God - directly : Luke 1:35; Luke 3:22 (Jesus); Luke 3:38 (Adam); Heb. 7:3 (Melchizedek); Rom. 5:14 (Adam)
son of God - in OT : Ps. 2:7; Ps. 2:12; Ps. 110:1; Pr. 30:4; Jer. 3:19; Dan. 3:25; Dan. 7:13
son of God - is son of man : Mat. 26:63-64; John 5:25-27
son of God - Israel : Ex. 4:22; Isa. 63:16; Isa. 64:8; Jer. 3:19; Jer. 31:9; Jer. 31:20; Hos. 11:1; Mat. 2:15
son of God - Jesus claims : Mat. 26:63; John 5:17-19; John 19:7
son of God - title of deity : John 5:18
son of man : son of God - is son of man
son of man - is son of God : son of God - is son of man
song : song - exclusive ; song - Moses
song - exclusive : Rev. 14:3

"During the time of the First and Second Temples, a number of the Levites played on two types of harps, singing arcane melodies that no one else was permitted to learn. This knowledge was passed from father to son, until the destruction of the Second Temple." Ref-0146, p. 390.


song - Moses : Deu. 31:19-22; Deu. 32:1-47
Song of Solomon : feasts - scriptures read ; Song of Solomon - meaning ; Song of Solomon - name of God
Song of Solomon - meaning : Sos. 1:1

". . . Roland Murphy has concluded that "the eventual canonization of the work . . . can best be explained if the poetry originated as religious rather than secular literature." Therefore, James Hamilton has recently averred that "the Song of Songs is in the canon because it was written from a messianic perspective in order to nourish a messianic hope." Is it possible that this love song was written with the authorial intent to advance and explain the messianic hope?" Ref-1272, p. 79.


Song of Solomon - name of God : Sos. 8:6

". . . although no name or term for God appears in an English translation of the Song of Solomon except in the New American Standard Bible, the Hebrew name of God, Yah, occurs at the end of Sos. 8:6. No other recent major translation of the Old Testament into English follows the lead of the NASB translators." Ref-0075, p. 260.


Song of Solomon - read at Passover : feasts - scriptures read
songs : songs - spiritual; Ex. 15:1; Num. 21:17; Deu. 31:19; Isa. 38:20; 1Cor. 14:26; Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16; Rev. 15:3
songs - spiritual : 1Cor. 14:26; Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16
sons : father - sin affects son ; Jesus - descendants; prince - sons - millennium ; seed - of woman - attacked ; sons - of God in NT; sons - of God in OT ; sons - of God intermarry
sons - Jesus : Jesus - descendants
sons - killed - messianic line : seed - of woman - attacked
sons - of God in NT : Mat. 5:9; Luke 3:38; Luke 20:36; John 1:12; Rom. 8:14; Rom. 8:19; Gal. 3:26
sons - of God in OT : Gen. 6:2; Gen. 6:4; Gen. 6:9; Deu. 32:8 (cf. LXX, Qumran); Job 1:6; Job 2:1; Job 38:7; Ps. 89:6

"A fragment from [Dea Sea Scroll] Cave IV containing Deuteronomy 32:8 reads, ‘according to the number of the sons of God,’ which is translated ‘angels of God’ by the LXX, as in Genesis 6:4 (margin); Job 1:6; 2:1; and 38:7. The Masoretic Text reads, ‘according to the number of the children of Israel.’" Ref-0075, p. 367. "This it is said, Gen. 6:2, "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." The sons of God were the children of the church, of the posterity of Seth; the daughters of men were those that were born out of the church, and of the posterity of Cain, and those that adhered to him." Ref-1289, pp. 209-210.


sons - of God intermarry : Gen. 6:2; Gen. 6:9; 1Pe. 3:20; 2Pe. 2:4; Jude 1:6

"ben elohiym," "divine beings" (Tanakh), "angels of God" (Josephus), "sons of God" (Septuagint), "The term ‘sons of God’ is a general term which means ‘to be brought into existence by God's creative act.’" "This explanation [angels, not godly Sethites] is upheld by the majority, e.g. Philo, Josephus, most of the Rabbis, the Septuagint, Kurtz, Delitzsch, Gunkel, Konig, Pember. On the other side Augustine, Calvin, J. P. Lange apply the passage to the comingling of Sethites and Cainites." Ref-0197, p.69. "The words “in like manner,” are associated grammatically, not with the words “Sodom” and “Gomorrah” and “the cities,” which are in the nominative case, but with the two verbal forms, the participles “giving themselves over to fornication” and “going after strange flesh.” A word in the accusative case in Greek is not associated grammatically with the word in the nominative case, but the verb. . . . Now to what do the words “in like manner,” refer? The text, punctuated as we have just indicated, would refer the words to the angels of verse 6. That is, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, in like manner to the angels, committed fornication. And that is correct. But the Greek text gives us further help. The demonstrative pronoun τούτοις appears immediately after the words “in like manner.” . . . That is, those cities gave themselves over to fornication in like manner to these, namely, the angels. Thus we have a clear statement in the Greek text that angels committed fornication and went after strange flesh. One such statement in the Word of God is enough to establish the fact. . . . One will have to accept the fact of the angels committing fornication, repugnant and unexplainable as it is, or reject the verbal inspiration of the New Testament and the rules of Greek syntax." Ref-0946, pp. 32-35.


sons - priest - millennium : prince - sons - millennium
sons - sin of father affects : father - sin affects son
sons and daughters : prophecy - sons and daughers
sons and daughters - prophecy : prophecy - sons and daughers
soon : time - short ; timing - texts - preterism
soon - manner or timing? : timing - texts - preterism
soon - return of Jesus : time - short
sorcery : Balaam - sorcery; curses - Israel protected; sorcery - practiced; witchcraft - AGAINST
sorcery - AGAINST : witchcraft - AGAINST
sorcery - Balaam : Balaam - sorcery
sorcery - Israel protected : curses - Israel protected
sorcery - practiced : Ex. 7:11; Ex. 7:22; Ex. 8:7; Ex. 8:18; Isa. 47:9; Isa. 47:12; Isa. 65:11; Eze. 13:18-23; Acts 8:9; Acts 13:6
Soreg : temple - soreg
Soreg - temple : temple - soreg
sores : sores - as judgment
sores - as judgment : Ex. 9:9; Ex. 9:11; Deu. 28:27; Deu. 28:35; Job 2:7; Isa. 3:17; Rev. 16:2
sorrow : crying - no more; knowledge - increases sorrow; repentance - sorrow leads to; sorrow - joy after
sorrow - ignorance increases : knowledge - increases sorrow
sorrow - joy after : Ps. 30:5; Ps. 126:5-6
sorrow - leads to repentance : repentance - sorrow leads to
sorrow - no more : crying - no more
Sos. 1:1 : index - bible books; Ref-1110 ; Song of Solomon - meaning
Sos. 1:2 : wine - enjoyed
Sos. 1:3 : marriage - companions
Sos. 1:5 : marriage - companions
Sos. 1:6 : vineyard - new keeper
Sos. 1:8 (?) : shepherdess
Sos. 2:1 : lilly - of valley; Sharon - rose of
Sos. 2:4 : marriage - supper
Sos. 2:6 : left hand
Sos. 2:7 : marriage - companions
Sos. 2:10 : rapture - typological hint?
Sos. 2:13 : rapture - typological hint?
Sos. 2:14 : rock - in cleft
Sos. 3:1-5 : exegesis - Sos._3:1-5
Sos. 3:6 : myrrh ; wilderness - coming from
Sos. 3:6-11 : exegesis - Sos._3:6-11
Sos. 4:1-7 : exegesis - Sos._4:1-7
Sos. 4:10 : beauty - FOR
Sos. 4:15 : living - water
Sos. 5:1 : marriage - companions
Sos. 5:2 (?) : door - Jesus
Sos. 5:2-8 : exegesis - Sos._3:1-5
Sos. 5:8 : marriage - companions
Sos. 5:9-16 : exegesis - Sos._3:6-11
Sos. 6:1 : marriage - companions
Sos. 6:4 : beauty - FOR
Sos. 6:4-19 : exegesis - Sos._4:1-7
Sos. 6:8 : marriage - companions
Sos. 6:13 : marriage - companions
Sos. 7:1 : beauty - work of God
Sos. 8:3 : left hand
Sos. 8:6 : phylactery ; Song of Solomon - name of God
Sos. 8:13 : marriage - companions
soteriology :

✪ The study of the doctrine of salvation.


Soteriology (AST-307), Dr. Robert Lightner : Ref-0095
Soteriology (AST-307), Dr. Robert Lightner - Lightner, Dr. Robert, Tyndale Theological Seminary. Soteriology (AST-307) : Ref-0095
Soteriology (AST-307), Dr. Robert Lightner - Lightner, Dr. Robert, Tyndale Theological Seminary. Soteriology (AST-307) - Tyndale Theological Seminary. Soteriology (AST-307), Dr. Robert Lightner : Ref-0095
sought : scripture - not found
sought - scripture - not found : scripture - not found
soul : hole - God fills; Jesus - soul and spirit ; soul - departs at death; soul - destroyed; soul - meaning ; soul - sleep - AGAINST

✪ will, mind, and emotions.


soul - departs at death : 1K. 17:21-22
soul - destroyed : Mat. 10:28; Mat. 16:26; Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25; Luke 21:19
soul - hungry : hole - God fills
soul - meaning :

"The Hebrew word for soul is nephesh. It is used seven hundred fifty-four times, but it is not always translated as soul. in fact, forty-five different English words are used to translate this one Hebrew word. The Greek word for soul is psuchei. It is used a total of one hundred five times, and seven different English words are used to translate this one Greek word. The Hebrew and Greek words, nephesh and psuchei, are used in a number of different ways and translated into a number of different English words, showing that one cannot place a hard and fast meaning on the word soul. The word “soul” emphasizes the nonmaterial, personal being, and it is used in sixteen different ways in Scripture." Arnold Fruchtenbaum, Fruit from the Frucht, Ref-0067, Spring 05, p. 4b.


soul - of Jesus : Jesus - soul and spirit
soul - sleep - AGAINST : Deu. 34:5-7; Isa. 14:9; Mat. 17:3; Mark 9:4; Luke 9:30; Luke 16:19; Luke 23:43; 2Cor. 5:8; Php. 1:21; Jude 1:9; Rev. 6:9

✪ Notice the death of Moses (Deu. 34:5-7; Jude 1:9) yet by his conscious appearance on the Mount of Transfiguration (Mat. 17:3; Mark 9:4; Luke 9:30). "Calvin returned to Paris in 1534. This year the reformed met with severe treatment, which determined him to leave France, after publishing a treatise against those who believe that departed souls are in a kind of sleep." Ref-1306, loc. 9585.


souls : saved - souls; souls - trafficking in
souls - saved : saved - souls
souls - trafficking in : Eze. 27:13; 2Pe. 2:3; Jude 1:11; Rev. 18:13
south : king - of south - Egypt - LXX ; south - omitted
south - king of - Egypt - LXX : king - of south - Egypt - LXX
south - omitted : Isa. 49:11
sovereign : evil - God sovereign over; sovereign - God
sovereign - evil - God over : evil - God sovereign over
sovereign - God : Gen. 45:8; Ex. 21:13; Job 9:17; Job 12:9-25; Job 33:13; Job 42:2; Ecc. 3:14; Isa. 10:15; Isa. 43:13; Isa. 46:10-11; Lam. 3:37-38; Mat. 10:29; John 19:11; Eph. 1:11

". . . he has the elect angels always obedient to him, and the devils are compelled to obey his command, although they strive in the contrary direction." Ref-0696, Dan. 4:35.


sovereignty : chance - or God; kingdom - offer - sovereignty vs. responsibility ; sovereignty - God - attempt to thwart; sovereignty - kings used by God unknowingly; sovereignty - vs. responsibility
sovereignty - God - attempt to thwart : Gen. 37:20
sovereignty - kings used by God unknowingly : 1Chr. 5:26; Isa. 10:5-15; Isa. 44:28; Isa. 45:1-6; Isa. 45:13; Jer. 25:9; Jer. 51:11; Jer. 51:28-29
sovereignty - or chance : chance - or God
sovereignty - vs. responsibility : Mat. 26:24; Mark 14:21; Luke 22:22; Acts 2:22-24; Acts 3:13-18; Acts 4:27-28; Rom. 9:19

"The biblical antinomy presents divine sovereignty and human responsibility as a both/and situation. But human reason seeks an either/or." Richard Emmons, "Open Theism or Veiled Heresy?", Ref-0057, January/February 2005, 18:20, pp. 18. "You may not be able to answer ultimate questions of free will, but take what God shows you and leave the rest to Him. God has the answer, ‘Secret things belong unto the Lord our God’ (Deu. 29:29). Habakkuk says ‘the just shall live by faith’ and faith sometimes means our being content not to know. The desire to know may be sheer intellectual pride. There are antinomies in the Christian faith so that the Christian must say two things at the same time -- God is sovereign, man is responsible. Above all we must remember that we are standing on Holy ground. Let us be little children and humble before Him (Mat. 11:25)." Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Ref-0935, p. 241. "Certainly there are some prerogatives that belong exclusively to God, for example, the right to receive religious worship and the ultimate right to take life. Ascribing these rights to God means denying them to man. But we must beware of applying such reasoning to all aspects of the divine-human relationship. For example, we should not assume that because salvation is foreordained by God, human decisions are of no consequence. The Bible says that human faith is necessary for salvation. Sometimes, evidently, God’s primary causality negates creaturely causality, but sometimes the former reinforces the latter. How can we tell when there is negation and when there is reinforcement? The answer is simply that the bible tells us. Primary causes can either negate or reinforce secondary causes because God and the world are not on a common scale of being. It is not the case that divine agency always eliminates human agency. There are two distinct levels of reality: that of the Creature and that of the creature. There are also two distinct levels of causality: divine causation and causation from within the world. Most events have both primary and secondary causes, but God may, of course, work “without, above, or against” the secondary causes at his pleasure." Ref-1344, pp. 81-82. ". . . one might use the concept of divine sovereignty to deny human responsibility, or vice versa. That sort of deduction is plausible to many; both hyper-Calvinists and Arminians see these two concepts as opposed to one another. The hyper-Calvinist opts for divine sovereignty and denies or compromises human responsibility; the Arminian does the reverse. Van Til disparages this sort of argument as “deductivism.” . . . To read each biblical doctrine in the light of the others will sometimes restrain our drawing of logical deductions. Van Til argues that if we understand divine sovereignty in the light of human responsibility and vice versa, we will not draw the inferences from these doctrines that are drawn by the hyper-Calvinists and the Arminians. For the fully biblical doctrine of divine sovereignty does not contradict the fully biblical view of human responsibility, nor the reverse." Ref-1344, p. 166,168. ". . . God’s unconditional purpose is not inconsistent with human responsibility. God achieves his eternal purposes in part through finite, secondary causes. He ordains means as well as ends, and those means include human faith-responses to the gospel offer." Ref-1344, p. 221. "In Edwards’ view the only sensible way to talk of the free will was that one is free to do what one wants to do. That was also, he said, the common sense meaning of freedom. “Let the person come by his volition or choice how he will, yet, if he is able, and there is nothing in the way to hinder his pursing and executing his will, the man is fully and perfectly free, according to the primary and common notion of freedom.” If having free will, then, meant being free to do what one wanted to do, that was another way of saying that one was free to follow one’s own strongest motive. Choosing and acting freely could not mean anything other than one was free to follow one’s own strongest inclinations." Ref-1348, pp. 440-441. "Christians are not fatalists. The central line of Christian tradition neither sacrifices the utter sovereignty of God nor reduces the responsibility of his image-bearers. In the realm of philosophical theology, this position is sometimes called compatibilism. It simply means that God’s unconditioned sovereignty and the responsibility of human beings are mutually compatible. It does not claim to show how they are compatible." Ref-1512, pp. 51-52.


sovereignty - vs. responsibility - kingdom offer : kingdom - offer - sovereignty vs. responsibility
sovereignty of God : free will - vs. sovereignty of God ; predestination - of God
sovereignty of God - predestination : predestination - of God
sovereignty of God - vs. free will : free will - vs. sovereignty of God
Sovereignty of God, The, Pink : Ref-1056
Sovereignty of God, The, Pink - Cross-0127 - Pink, Sovereignty of God, The : Ref-1056
Sovereignty of God, The, Pink - Pink, Sovereignty of God, The : Ref-1056
sower : parable - sower ; sower - parable of; sower - rejoices with reaper
sower - parable : parable - sower
sower - parable of : Mat. 13:3; Mat. 13:18; Mark 4:3; Mark 4:14; Luke 8:5
sower - rejoices with reaper : John 4:36; 1Cor. 3:7
sowing : sowing - and reaping
sowing - and reaping : Pr. 11:24; Job 4:8; Isa. 33:1; John 4:36; 1Cor. 3:7; Gal. 6:7

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