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1 Briefly explain your understanding of God’s providence According to Thomas C Oden in his book Classic Christianity providence is the expression of the divine will, power, and goodness through which the Creator preserves creatures, cooperates with what is coming to pass through their actions, and guides in their long-range purpose 1 The Triune God is the One who governs the life both human and nonhuman, plants, and inanimate objects. God orders the events of each facet of creation through their own journey and by their own God given capabilities. He does not interrupt human free will, He permits this free will yet “overrules whatever distortions human freedom can create that might distort the outcome of human history.” 2 When speaking on Providence God’s economy plays a huge part as well for it is God managing all events of life including past, present, and future as well as nature, seasons both earthly and heavenly. Explain how God can be providentially in charge of the entire world and yet humans have free will. Although God is the main actor in this movie of life and moving and aligning people, plants and vegetation, animals, and all beings when it comes to humans, it isn’t as if humans are robots and God is the One who operates these robots, we do have free will however God Sovereignty and His Power moves in cooperation with our free will.” God is the primordial causal agent that cooperates with multiple secondary causes. Within and through the whole complex, evolving matrix of natural causality there emerges actual human free will, created good but permitted to go awry, able to stand, liable to fall. 3 Speculate about how God’s providence impacts the idea of salvation; can humans just choose to seek God or is this a matter of God’s sovereign will? In terms of personal salvation Jesus says in The Gospel according to John “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. (Jn 6:44 NIV) Yahweh Is the One who is in charge or who administers and manages the fulfillment of one’s destiny as well as one’s salvation. He does not choose for us; However, he moves in 1 Thomas C. Olden. Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology . (New York: HarperOne, 2009), 2 Thomas C. Olden. Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology . (New York: HarperOne, 2009) 3 Thomas C. Olden. Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology . (New York: HarperOne, 2009)

conjunction with us so that the person fulfills their God given destiny and choose salvation. In Thomas C Oden’s book Classic Christianity, He states that What God wills for humanity is brought about even when humanity does not will the good that God wills. Nothing we choose can put a final obstacle in the way of the accomplishments of the divine purpose. 4 Humans will choose salvation but the Sovereignty and Omnipotence of Yahweh will place humans in situations, allow humans to experience trauma and a host of other experience/obstacles in life so these experiences can push one to make the choice and receive salvation. He knows the individual will choose Christ because He created the individual with the personality and heart to call out for salvation and receive Christ. 4 Thomas C. Olden. Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology . (New York: HarperOne, 2009)

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