id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 38232 Fisk, Wilbur Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. .txt text/plain 81439 3727 66 1. This doctrine of predestination makes God the author of sin. procures the sinful act--God wills the salvation of the reprobate, whom natural nor moral ability to serve God, nor makes it possible for him to the decrees or purposes of God and the responsible acts of man? charge in the sermon, that Calvinism makes God the author of sin, the it is objected to predestination that it "makes God the author of sin, The sermon charges predestination with making God the author of sin. choice is that power which the mind has of acting in view of motives, responsible subject of God's moral government, and actually sins with a entirely dependent upon God's grace for moral power"--in other words, "annihilates the whole doctrine of grace." Because God, if he held man then man has power, at any time, by an act of the will, to love God. Let ./cache/38232.txt ./txt/38232.txt