Everything God does is to glorify himself. Someone has rewritten the first question to the Westminster Larger Catechism as if it were addressed to God. "The chief end of God is to glorify himself and enjoy himself forever."
This passage is about God's response to Hezekiah's prayer concerning the threatenings of the kind of Assyria. It is loaded with theology that is difficult for most Evangelicals and Mainline Protestants to stomach.
Heresies are even being reworked from older distortions so that people will not have to believe in or worship the God of Isaiah 37.
This is a prelude to the sermon on Open Theology. Some of the same ideas are addressed. Ultimately it comes to the same conclusion. Historic Protestant Orthodoxy must not be abandoned in favor of the latest theological fad.
Belief in a strong sovereign God who predestines all things and works all things out to the conformity of his will is still the best, most helpful doctrine for those truly in need of a strong savior who can deliver them from sin's clutches.
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Doug Van Dorn is the founding pastor of Reformed Baptist Church of Northern Colorado. He is a graduate of Denver Seminary, and he and his wife, Janelle, are proud parents of two daughters.
