The always helpful Parchment and Pen guys have posted an interesting post on differing views of the sovereignty of God. Here is an excerpt of the post along with a couple of their helpful charts.
Believing in the sovereignty of God is not an option of yes, no, or maybe within the Christian context. If the Bible is our authoritative guide, one must believe that God is sovereign. It is not unlike the issue of predestination. That God predestines people to salvation is not up for debate, what is up for debate is what it means that God predestines.
Both Calvinists and Arminians agree that God is sovereign, but they will often disagree as to what this means.
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Here are some charts that might help.
This first one is God’s relationship to evil. Please note: the definitions below are that of emphasis, not necessarily exclusivity—there will be overlap with some of the concepts.
This is my best ”informed” guess as to where some church leaders might stand.
Now, for good measure and good fun, I will list some blogs and bloggers that deal with theological subjects (including myself!). Please note that I am sure to get in trouble for this, but what the heck. Nothing here is authoritative! If you don’t like where you are placed, sorry, but it was determined from the beginning of time that this chart was to be made this way for the greater good . . . well, at least God willed it to be. Deal with it!
Go here for the entire post.
[ht:P&P]
