Essential to God’s Being versus Essential to Our Doing
On the left we have the “doctrine chart,” flowing from top-down, absolute necessity to consequent necessity to arbitrary or unnecessary. Remember that these are with respect to God’s being. Is it absolutely necessary to God’s being? Those will be... [ ... ]
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