Functional to suit God's purpose.
Yes, all God's cosmological creation was declared functional. And innate in the actuality of function is the latent potentiality of dysfunction. It requires subtraction by addition, like a functional automobile having sugar added to its fuel tank to negate functionality and introduce dysfunctionality.
There is no malfunction or dysfunction going on in it.
Ra'a is a privation or negation of tov, so there must be potential for dysfunction within function.
Definitely no non function. :wazzup:
Not inherently. The negation must occur. Dysfunction cannot stand alone. The Christian faith cannot be any form or degree of Dualism.
Ra'a emerged. It's the same Ponerology pattern that we then see in Hamartiology. Negation of function is the only means of there being dysfunction in creation. First in the created heavenlies, then in the cosmos.
This is not even credible.
Well... It was virtually verbatim lexicography from the preeminent native Greek-speaking scholar Zodhiates, so I'm gonna have to stay with it as quite credible.
You are ignoring all the previous context and trying to install the definition you like.
Not at all.
Shall the thing formed say to the maker, why did you make me like this?
BTW it's rhetorical, we dont get to do that.
Right. It sure helps to copiously and intuitively understand the attributes of God to read such pasages, though. God's timelessness interfaces with all time. For God, there is no sequentiality as we perceive it.
I'm communing with God in His pre-creational foreknowledge from time. NOW. "Before" creation. But there is no "before" for God.
Paul then says what if God fitted and prepared the vessels.
So I'm asking you, what if he did just that?
He did. According to them having fitted themselves, since He knows the end before the beginning.
I know when it comes to God's sovereignty and his purpose you always implode.
Wow. Just wow. Why haven't you scathed and demeaned me sooner instead of all the pretense?
And I put the pitiful Calvinistic view of sovereignty to shame. God's sovereignty is utterly superordinate to all creation; just not in fallacious Supralapsarian fashion.
I understand everyone's reluctance to embrace that God's sovereignty includes having mercy on whom he will have mercy without any explanation especially one that would not seem fair.
I wholely embrace it with no reluctance whatsoever. That doesn't mean those fitted for destruction didn't do so as the participle reflecting the middle voice of the main verb, as specified by the Greek grammar.
God isn't awaiting time to unfold. He's both "nowhen" and "everywhen". Occurances in time don't dictate God's sovereign creation, but neither does God look down through some created time tunnel and non-interactively predesignate all things arbitrarily like a fiction novel and its characters.
This is why there are so many artifical binaries as false dichotomies as doctrinal extremes. Everyone ignores God's attributes and imputes time to Him instead.
But just like he asked Job, where were you when I...........?
The same place I am now. In His pre-creational Logos. But for me and creation, there's been an intervening instantiation into tangible existence according to created properties like time, etc. But I'm translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son in hypostatic union from time into his timelessness as He tents in the everlasting abode of the created heaven.
Time-based doctrinal declarations are false absolutes. I'm partaking of the divine nature... NOW. The uncreated, eternal, timeless nature of God... from time. That's why I'm predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son. He foreknew me. Right now. But eternally. He is foreknowing me just as He eternally foreknew me.
God doesn't do all that in some "past". There is no "past" for God. Only eternality as timelessness. Time is nothing to God, so doctrines dependent upon time constructs are absurd.
Don't tase me, Bro. Not cool.:dizzy:
