I have received a challenge from a true Christian friend about my musing on Libertarian Theology. When I started with the Declaration of Independence, and talked of God’s limits, she challenged me: show from Scripture that God limits Himself.
I have taken my time, not because of the scarcity, but because of the abundance of evidence, until at last, because of Easter, I found the perfect response:
Now if it has been Christmas, I would have said: “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.”
But because it is Easter: “Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried and rose again the third day.”
God limits himself, shown in Scripture.
And I could go on.
Every thing we know has limits. We define and classify things by what they are, and what they are not. The real question about God’s limits, which again I should base on Scripture, is what type of limits, and thus what type of thing, is God? Is he an immutable force of nature, or does he have personal agency and decision making capacity. People in their describing the love or holiness of God make Him seem like an impersonal force. They bleed any personality out of the Godhead.
Yet the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob chooses Abraham, wrestles with Jacob, pleads with his people, listens to the complaints of Job yet finds him justified. He longs to gather his children as a hen gathers her chicks. He is no irresistible force, but a God of personal agency who honors the personal agency of His people.
Libertarian theological thought focuses in on the personal agency of God, and thus our own agency, our choice ” to be or not to be” what we have been made to be.
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