Isaiah 30:1
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “Who execute a plan, but not Mine, and make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin; who proceed down to Egypt without consulting Me, to take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.”
Hosea 8:4 similarly states: “They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off.”
Calvinists who affirm an all-encompassing eternal decree, would have to admit that it was God’s plan, or else He could not be sovereign over it. To a Calvinist, any free-will, individual self-determined choice, is a threat to the sovereignty of God, which only a thorough-going determinism could protect. Yet, here we find a verse which seems to indicate that not all things are predetermined by God.
One member of The Society of Evangelical Arminians: “I hear the death-knell bell of exhaustive determinism tolling.”
