“But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases” (Psalm 115:3 NASB). The Psalmist follows this declaration of the sovereignty and capability of God with the inferior and impotent nature of idols: “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see;” etc. (Ps. 115:4-5 NASB). The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the living God, and besides Him there is no other (Isaiah 45:5, 14).
God is sovereign and is, in the words of Arminius, “capable of operating externally what things soever He can freely will, and by which He does operate whatever He freely wills.”1 God does not operate with His creatures as one does with a machine, but concurrently, allowing them a measure of freedom to do those things which they desire. But if God has all power in the universe, does this mean that He is free to do whatever can be done?
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