Good post, but I wonder if it helps in day to day situation.

My former Pastor used the terms, 'Perfect Will' and 'Permissive Will', not in the historical context, but in explaining why some Christians do bad things that run contrary to biblical-ethics. For instance, when a spouse leaves a spouse. It is easier on the ears to say that God allowed it, He could have stopped it but didn't; than saying that God decreed it.

The Will is far more easier to understand when its in the realm of redemption as oppose in the realm in attempting to live our lives in obedience to His Word. We may fall off the wagon and get back up; but what about those in our path that bears the brunt of our wandering.

John Chaney

"having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith . . ." Colossians 2:7