Our God is awesome. I do pause to thank Him. But never often enough. I shall thank Him yet more. :) Bless you all at AOMin.

God never tries anything. You and I try stuff, but God succeeds at all He does.

Thanks again James for giving relief to calamity that Arminianism simply cannot give-

Praise God, thankful for your faithful exegesis..been hearing waay too much "binding" of Covid19 🙄

Thank you for this

Any non reformed view of sovereignty assumes that God's purposes are constantly frustrated. This is contrary to Psalm 33 which states that God frustrates the plans of the peoples and of nations so that His purpose will be established. He did not create evil but He chooses when to allow it and when to prevent it and He does all this in accordance with His plans and without tempting anyone. He is working ALL things after the counsel of His will according to Ephesians. Our God is ruling triumphantly, not a frustrated spectator.

Excellent, unlike the man centred approach that is put forward by Leighton Flowers.

Isaiah 45 4For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me. 5I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, 6that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. 7I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Can anyone tell me what program he’s using?

2:00 in the video. My question is since God is omniscient and sees sentient beings actions before they actually occur in time and space, should we therefore conclude that then God is the cause of those actions? Or, is the freedom of volition kept in tact while being seen by the Creator?

I think the harder question is how did the devil fall? We know that Adam fell by following his wife who had fallen for the devils lie. But the devil didn't have another evil person to temp him.

I read once, in relation to theodicy, that God is the final cause of all moral evil and we are the efficient cause of all moral evil.

How does God have exhaustive foreknowledge of the future? By looking into the future to learn what will happen? OR did God foreordain it all? Ephesians 1:4-5, 11.

He is sovereign, which means the highest authority and right to rule as He pleases. Sovereign doesn’t mean exhaustive determinism, that’s not the definition in any dictionary ever written on Earth.

When He gave Jesus to die on the cross He did His best, don't you think. It will all work out in the end but we're not there yet, faith you know.

Reformed brothers, for my own knowledge, what is wrong with simply saying that God has given man free will and that man is tempted by sin and therefore man commits sin? And that is the explanation for evil? "Sovereign or trying his best" seems like a false dichotomy to me because the obvious other option is that God gave humans libertarian freedom to choose between good and evil.

The title is A misnomer , The point is that God is not trying to save people but Ends up unsuccessful at doing so, or being able to do so. There is nobody in the Christian church that believes that

The video suddenly skips before he mentions the word “MILLION” light years

Calvin says that God is the remote author of evil. God is the remote or primary cause of moral evil. Man is the secondary cause or author of his own sins.

It's all a mystery? Brother Jimmy is agnostic on the problem of evil? Isaiah 45:7 (KJV 1900): I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. Amos 3:6 (KJV 1900): Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? 3. God may thus quell his enemies by silence. But lest we should allow them with impunity to hold his sacred name in derision, he supplies us with weapons against them from his word. Accordingly, when we are accosted in such terms as these, Why did God from the first predestine some to death, when, as they were not yet in existence, they could not have merited sentence of death? let us by way of reply ask in our turn, What do you imagine that God owes to man, if he is pleased to estimate him by his own nature? As we are all vitiated by sin, we cannot but be hateful to God, and that not from tyrannical cruelty, but the strictest justice. But if all whom the Lord predestines to death are naturally liable to sentence of death, of what injustice, pray, do they complain? Should all the sons of Adam come to dispute and contend with their Creator, because by his eternal providence they were before their birth doomed to perpetual destruction, when God comes to reckon with them, what will they be able to mutter against this defense? If all are taken from a corrupt mass, it is not strange that all are subject to condemnation. Let them not, therefore, charge God with injustice, if by his eternal judgment they are doomed to a death to which they themselves feel that whether they will or not they are drawn spontaneously by their own nature. Hence it appears how perverse is this affectation of murmuring, when of set purpose they suppress the cause of condemnation which they are compelled to recognize in themselves, that they may lay the blame upon God. But though I should confess a hundred times that God is the author (and it is most certain that he is), they do not, however, thereby efface their own guilt, which, engraven on their own consciences, is ever and anon presenting itself to their view. Institutes Book 3. Ch. 23. section 3.

Stars may be hydrogen or may not be. One thing they definitely are, are avatars of Angels.

You forgot to add that those destroyed by God will also be numbered as the sand of the sea.

Wierd editing around 13:30

Regarding this video's title you have both a false dichotomy and the first statement exhibits the fallacy of begging the question (assuming what needs to be proven: James' view of sovereignty). These are basic blunders.

God is the source of all evil. He Himself is not evil. All things in creation are good for Him,not for us. Judas Iscariot . Good were it for that man if he had never been born. God transcends good and evil. Amos 3:6

James I see you have gone for the morass like Edwards. God,s command was that Adam should not eat of the tree, and yet you say that some other non biblical primary cause or secret sovereign decree meant that he must. What a silly contradiction, and you justify your authority in this by piggy backing on God's ways being higher than ours. Why is it that Calvin's, Armenians and Molinists for that matter insist on putting God back into created time. If God is creator he cannot be subject to it except in the incarnation. God's foreknowledge of all things is a function of him being creator and outside of time. This aspect then breaks the normal time bound logic which is what leaves you in the morass. Indeed God's ways are higher than ours and one aspect of this is that he is outside of time which then affects time bound logic. Outside of time you can know all the future without necessarily ordaining everything before hand, looking down the corridor of time. The origin of evil is the flip side of the coin of freewill responsibility. A necessary risk to create a people who can meaningfully praise God's glory. A risk commanded against and subsequently fully mitigated in the incarnation. Romans 3 is clear God could not punish the sins committed before had until God had demonstrated his justice in giving original sinners a chance . And let's be clear God does not predestined everything. Those being saved are predestined to become like Christ, yes read it carefully. As regards national election the Jews are always loved, And to those people who were not formally elected, the gentiles they can be grafted in. And by the way Romans ch 9, not all who are decended from Israel are Israel. This remains the terms of a non salvic national election. It was to the children promised, and before they had done anything, including have faith. You do not need to import and conflate this with Romans 4 for the logic to work here. National Jacob was chosen and national esau wasn't, so what. Neither of these elections affects the gospel which is exactly the point of Rom 9-11.The difficulty for all you conflationists is you can't see that God might work in more than one way at the same time. This is of course especially relevant to Jews being saved who are therefore subject to 2 complimentary elections at the same time.

Welcome to the world of Calvinism. The following words found throughout holy Scripture will now be highly logically problematic - both to the natural reasonable man, and the spiritually illumined one: "If" "Reward" "Choose" "Punishment" (now practically meaningless and totally incoherent in light of the Reformed theory of compatibalism and irresistible / effectual grace) The following words will now also have to be somewhat "tweaked" (utterly changed from what they clearly and simply mean)... "Love" "Desires" "World" "Sovereign" "Whoever" "All" Finally you need to get used to cherry picking a couple of verses outside of the context of the entire swathe of the Book, Epistle or Gospel where they are found, and conflate and confuse individual justification / incorporation into Christ with corporate ministry and election. Oh! And please DO NOT research about how Augustine of Hippo practically reinvented the meaning of the word "Predestination" or the view of the human will and its relation to the Divine one as it was classically understood in the early Christian Church, and how one of his greatest fans - John Calvin - picked up this novel (non Christian) doctrine (double predestination) in the 16th century and stuck it on steroids: John Calvin calling it "the terrible doctrine" - which it is of course - but not for the same reasons he was applying the term... Now that you're a Calvinist you will be keenly aware that this doctrinal system (see the doctrines of grace) seems to tarnish the character of God and human moral responsibility and accountability (even though it sincerely and rightly seeks to stress the primacy of grace)... but remember! You are honoring God and His Scripture by swallowing this hard to swallow view of Sovereignty (meticulous determinism), Election and Reprobation (unconditional election), and man only having the illusion of free will (total depravity / inability)... The thing is though (between you and me and the entire Christian East and much of the West who do not hold to Augustinian Calvinism, and who all but you minority of Reformed folk, reject double predestination) you're not actually honouring God or his word in conforming to this system, you're actually simply honouring the thoughts of these men and their interpretive tradition) 😬✌️💚😂

God sets parameters. to seek God and grow requires being able to reject him. not Calvinism, no freedom.

James is the straw man king. Arminianism doesn’t contend that God is “trying His best” we say that evil occurs in a fallen world and yet God can bring good out of our suffering as Paul said He works all things for good for those who love Him.

False dichotomy Mr White. Stop misleading your audience. Calvinism is not the Gospel.

Calvinism and Arminianism are both false. seek in freewill, saved by predestination.