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God’s Sovereignty and Man’s Free Will

Sovereignty, properly understood, creates no conflict between God’s sovereignty and man’s free will.

To be sovereign is to possess absolute authority. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5^th Edition, a sovereign is:

“One that exercises supreme, permanent authority, especially in a nation or other governmental unit …”

Under the adjectival form are included:

Self-governing, independent; having supreme rank or power; paramount; supreme…

From the Century Dictionary is cited:

“Supreme in power; possessing supreme dominion; not subject to any other…. one to whom allegiance is due…”

And from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English, we see:

“Independent of, and unlimited by...

He who argues against a good and loving almighty God because He has not destroyed the wicked, does not understand Who God is or what he has demanded of Him.

God exercised perfect judgement before the foundation of the world, condemning all unbelief and disobedience as sin, and sentencing all sin with death. All men from the beginning of time until its end are judged by His judgement, and by His judgement all are found guilty and under sentence of death. Were God to execute His justice upon men right away, all men would perish.

Rather, God’s executed judgment resides upon His Son and man’s sentencing is delayed.

God has appointed a Day of Judgement, on which all men shall be subject to judgement and sentencing...