![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() God’s power is not absolute in the sense that God can do anything ( potestas absoluta) rather, God’s power ensures that He can do all that is logically possible for Him to will to do. His power, knowledge, and presence ensure that His goals are met, that His designs are fulfilled, and that His superintendence of all events is (to God, at least) essentially “risk free.” Each assertion is a variant of divine sovereignty. Traditional theism insists that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent-all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere present. There was no metaphysical “necessity” to create it was a free action of God. And these came into being ex nihilo-out of nothing. And then there was something: matter, space, time, energy. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” ( Gen. But at its heart, it is saying nothing different from the assertion of the Nicene Creed: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty.” To say that God is sovereign is to express His almightiness in every area. Put this way, it seems to say something that is expressly Reformed in doctrine. To put this another way: nothing happens without God’s willing it to happen, willing it to happen before it happens, and willing it to happen in the way that it happens. That is a central assertion of Christian belief and especially in Reformed theology. God is sovereign in creation, providence, redemption, and judgment. ![]()
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