God’s Counsel and Human Freedom (2)

It is certainly a precarious business to maintain that human freedom and God's sovereignty are contradictory, logically. For the mind of man is so constituted by God that it simply does not tolerate a logical contradiction. It can't. And it may not. It is impossible to hold to two contrary propositions, contrary in relation to each other. Let us make this plain by returning to the two propositions in question. If I declare that man is sovereign in his working and that thus God is not sovereign,...