For God’s power and goodness are so great and beyond understanding that He ordains and executes His work in the most excellent and just manner, even when devils and wicked men act unjustly. For His power and goodness are so great and beyond understanding that He ordains and executes His work in the most excellent and just manner, even when devils and wicked men act unjustly. And as to His actions surpassing human understanding, we will not curiously inquire farther than our capacity allows us.
Belgic Confession of Faith
Article 13
The Providence of God
“You might say we are in this particular time of judgment. Certainly the spirit of anti-Christ has risen up…. but notice this it says that God’s power and goodness are so great and beyond understanding that He ordains and executes His work in the most excellent and just manner, even when devils and wicked men act unjustly. You might say that the time we are in has waxed this way. We are in this period of judgment. Certainly, the Spirit of Anti-Christ has risen up but notice this it says that;
“For His power and goodness are so great and beyond understanding that He ordains and executes His work in the most excellent and just manner, even when devils and wicked men act unjustly. And as to His actions surpassing human understanding, we will not curiously inquire farther than our capacity allows us.”
This whole effort of Christian Nationalism seems to say, ‘things aren’t going well for us. We have to do everything that we can to put the halts on the secular religionists. How are we not trying to pry into the just judgments of God and His providence and even His decrees to try and stop something that God has ordained and will use Romans 8 for the good of those – His elect.'”
Rev. Chris Gordon
Interview w/ Doug Wilson & Jared Longshore
Time Stamp 44:15f
1.) This assumes that we aren’t supposed to do everything we can to put the halts on the secular religionists. How does Chrissy know that God’s providence and decree don’t include doing everything we can to put the halts on the secular religionists. What Gordon does here is he turns God’s providence and decree into a Greek kind of fate. That is not the definition of providence of God’s decree.
2.) How is Gordon himself here not trying to pry into God’s providence and even His decrees to not try and stop something that God has ordained and will use Romans 8 for the good of those – His elect, if stopped? Does Gordon know what God’s decrees are? Does Gordon know what God’s providence intends before it is complete?
3.) If God has ordained for X, Y, or Z to happen does Gordon suppose that it would be possible for us to stop or not stop what God has ordained? Gordon speaks like it might be possible for us to overturn and alter what God has ordained and intends to work in His providence.
4.) With this line of argumentation (so-called) Gordon seeks to crawl into God’s file cabinet and presumes to know what God has and has not decreed and from that inside knowledge of God’s mind is lecturing Wilson and Longshore on the evils of trying to do everything we can to put the halts on secular religionists. Is Gordon fighting against God’s design here?
