The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum God's Sovereignty

and welcome to the Discussion Board.

The question you ask is very common: "How could a just and Holy God foreordain/decree the Fall?" One could write volumes in answering that question but let me try and make it very brief and simple for you:

1) God has decreed ALL things without exception.
2) God decrees the means as well as the end of all things for His own Glory.
3) God decreed that Adam would transgress His explicit command and thus the Fall.
4) Adam did the transgressing and that freely and thus God is not culpable for Adam's sin.

This question is very similar to the broader one often asked, "How can a holy God decree and/or allow evil?" Again, the answer is a difficult one but only in its acceptance by the human mind which is by nature at enmity with God and His perfect ways. God rightly decrees and justly allows and uses evil for a higher good, yet He is not the Author of that sin. Sin originates with the creature and not the Creator even though God the Creator decrees that it should be. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

In His grace,