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The Doctrine of God: Week 24
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, by Wayne Grudem.
Chapter 16, God’s Providence:  If God controls all things, how can our actions have real meaning?  What are the decrees of God?

This week we begin our discussion on how God keeps all created things existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them (preservation) and how He cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act the way they do (concurrence).

 

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The Doctrine of God: Week 14
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, by Wayne Grudem.
Chapter 1, The Character of God: “Communicable” Attributes (Part 2)

This week we start to examine the “communicable” attributes of God (those which He has shared in part with us) which are clasified as ‘attributes of purpose’.  We begin by discussing an often controversial topic - God’s Will.

 

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