There is no inconsistency or contrariety between the decretive and preceptive will of God. It is very consistent to suppose that God may hate the thing itself, and yet will that it should come to pass. Yea, I do not fear to assert that the thing itself may be contrary to God’s will, and yet that it may be agreeable to His will that it should come to pass, because His will, in the one case, has not the same object with His will in the other case. To suppose God to have contrary wills towards the same object, is a contradiction; but it is not so, to suppose Him to have contrary wills about different objects. The thing itself, and that the thing should come to pass, are different, as is evident; because it is possible that the one may be good and the other may be evil. The thing itself may be evil, and yet it may be a good thing that it should come to pass. It may be a good thing that an evil thing should come to pass; and oftentimes it most certainly and undeniably is so, and proves so.
Jonathan Edwards

Birds Of A feather Flock Togeth

Birds Of A feather Flock Togeth

Birds of a feather flock
together. When Jesse Jackson made an
address in Cuba on June 27, 1984, the
United Press gave us the following
quotation:

“Love live Cuba, long live the
United States, long live President
Castro, long live Martin Luther King,
long live Che Gueverra, long live
Patrice Lamumba, long live our cry of
freedom, OUR TIME HAS COME.” Notice the personal pronoun: “OUR.” Every man
listed in the “OUR” group was a
dedicated Marxist.

In the Los Angeles Times,
November 28, 1987, Jesse says, “I am
opposed to the death penalty.” In
regards to Jesse’s Christianity, he says (June 1, 1984, Los Angeles Times): “Oh
certainly, absolutely. God has got many names but one residence. You know some people call him God, Allah, Zin, Buddha, but IT is a mighty force. IT is a
mighty creator.”

Sound like anything you ever
read in the New Testament?

Jesse’s New Testament
Christianity is probably best expressed by an article from the Biblical
Scoreboard in December of 1987. There
we read, “He praised Playboy for having a universal appeal of sex on the one
hand and its CHALLENGING INTELLECTUAL
APPEAL on the other.” “Intellectual
appeal”? For what kind of intellect? A thirteen-year-old in the ghetto? Oh,
Jesse is a character! He and Fidel
Castro and Dukakis and Ted Kennedy and
Che Gueverra make up what Jesse calls
“our time.” THANK GOD IT HASN’T COME
YET!

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