There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
C. S. Lewis
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I was reading on that today. I can't paste the link for whatever reason. Look up patheos.com and roger e olson and his post today on John piper and tornadoes. Good commentary!
ReplyDeleteI don't read these the same. Lewis said:
ReplyDeleteThere is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
Olson has Sproul saying:
there is no maverick molecule in the universe, that God controls every thought and twist and turn of every molecule in the universe.
The latter is determinism, with which I have some qualms. The former just says that God has claims on everything, desiring everything voluntarily respond to his love; it doesn't argue for determinism. Lewis was more Arminian than Calvinist in his writing.