Dear Mike,

When studying one of your articles, I came across this phrase: “We cannot so much a commit a sin if it was not first written in God’s book before we were ever born.“
Could you throw more light on this please? Does this mean that those who sin could not help but sin because it was already recorded?

Thank you
M____

Hi M____,

The answer to your question is, yes, we cannot so much as sin or be evil men without our every thought and action being foreordained, and “written in His book, even the days ordained for us before there were any of them”.

Psa 139:16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. (NIV)

Pro 16:4 simply restates this Truth in these words:

Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all [ things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

There are many ministers who will tell you God is sovereign and will yet deny the Truths of those two verses. There are literally hundreds of others which say the same thing. Every time we read that the Lord sent an evil spirit to cause sins to be committed, we are being told the same thing.

1Ki 22:21  And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
1Ki 22:22  And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

That exact same spirit is in the mouths of all of the prophets of Babylon until this very day, as they teach the false doctrine of “free moral agency”.
Christians are so far away from the Truth of God’s Word that they want to protect God from His own Word which declares this Truth from Genesis to Revelation.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

“Predestinated” means that Psa 139:16 is True, and “all things” mean that Pro 16:4 is True.
If you have not yet done so, be sure to read the paper entitled After The Counsel of His Own Will. It is in the Essential Reading section of the upper left corner of the iswasandwillbe. com home page.
I am well aware of how radical this doctrine of God creating evil in you and me is, so in closing I will let the apostle Paul answer for me in Romans.

Rom 7:17  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [ how] to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

There it is. It is twice repeated under the inspiration of the holy spirit. “It is no more I that sins… I find a law [ is in effect which dictates] that when I would do good evil is present with me”. Who created and sustains that law which dictates our sins? Is it free moral agency? Does the devil tempt us apart from God’s direction? The Biblical answer is an emphatic, NO! It is God who sustains that law of sin and death, and it is God who is doing it all as His means of “humbling us” in these bodies of clay and preparing us to live in new spiritual bodies which will be free from that law of sin and death.

Jas 4:12  There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim [ God] has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

I hope this helps you to understand the extent of the total sovereignty of our loving heavenly Father, who really is working all things together for good for all of mankind who are all called according to His purpose.

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

In the end all men will bow their knees to their loving Father.

1Ti 4:10  For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially [ not exclusively] of those that believe.
1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [ the sins of] the whole world.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike