«And if God is
sovereign over His creation, how can He bear no responsibility in all of the violence He allows to take place?»
The strange truth is that when men live in dependence on God, they are enabled to act with more vigor and courage and with less likelihood of despair and disappointment than when they falsely assume that they are lords of all they survey and act as if they were
sovereign over the Creation.
Not exact matches
He is in control of
creation, of light and darkness, and He is
sovereign over prosperity and chaos.
This eternal significance, this meaning which transcends all human meanings, is the
sovereign act of
creation through which God speaks to us and brings us into being, an act which is completely «
over our heads» — beyond our powers of rational understanding.
Above all else, God is
sovereign over all earth and all
creation, and no human authority is great enough to thwart His plan and good will.
The doctrines of
creation, judgment, redemption, and providence, never systematically formulated but always presupposed in Hebrew thought, had a single foundation — the
sovereign rule of Yahweh
over his people and his world.
Scripture presents to us a God who is
sovereign over every detail of his
creation, including the catastrophes, and that God is working all things for his glory and our good.