While being careful not to say, “I am of Calvin”, I’m curious to hear a free-willist interpretation of 1 Cor. 3:5-8:
”Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither who he plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.”
Phrases like, “as the Lord gave to each one” and “God gave the increase” become mere platitudes in the mouths of wishy-washy modern Evangelicals. If “God is a gentleman,” and regeneration is contingent solely upon the will of man, then Paul’s statements about the working of God are mere pious noises.
Do phrases such as “as the Lord gave to each one” and “God gave the increase” make God omni-causal? Responsible for men's every decision and action?
Posted by: Teddy at novembre 26, 2004 11:15 PM