False View of the Divine Sovereignty

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1880

False View of the Divine Sovereignty

There have been—alas! there are men who trace non-conversion up to some mysterious decree of almighty God. The solution of all the problems of human impenitence is to be found, not in the moral agency of the creature, but in the sovereign purposes of the Creator—in some mystic and immutable plan, far back in the fathomless eternity. Perish these unscriptural and blasphemous ideas! They are the miserable dreams of a barbarous theology. They find no record on the bright book of God. Here, in this revelation of paternal love, we learn that, instead of sovereignty forming a single hindrance, it is its prerogative—its delight, to remove whatever obstructions stand in the way of human salvation.