Everything for a Purpose

"The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble." Proverbs 16:4 ESV

God has made all things to glorify Himself, yes even the wicked. We can see this same teaching in Romans 9,

"What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory--" Romans 9:22,23 ESV

And so, we have a Biblical basis for this teaching of God causing all things. God is not a big bumbling idiot in the sky who made everything good in the beginning and then had no clue what would happen afterwards. After Adam fell God did not ask, as Mr. Shearer would say, "What happened?!", instead God had ordained it all to occur to fulfill His purpose, even the sinful act of Adam to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If God can ordain the crucifixion of Christ, which is the greatest sin in history, then there is no problem saying that God ordains all the "lesser" sins. Notice how man attempts to contrast other sins such as rape, murder, etc to the crucifixion of Christ.

I truly question the salvation of some when professing Christians attempt to hold a candle to the crucifixion by using emotional arguments like "Does God ordain rape? Does He want children to be killed?". What if He did? So what's the problem? One vessel for honorable use, another for common use, all from the same lump. In the below video, James White gives examples of the type of argumentation that anti-Calvinists use to plea to the emotions of others.

This attempt to discredit the God of Calvinism is actually ignoring the Scriptures or changing it to relieve God of "responsibility". Obvious texts like Genesis 50:20 MUST be twisted and turned to actually say "God allowed it" or some other pathetic attempt at eisegesis. The Scripture has made itself crystal clear that God ordains all things, yet God does not sin. That will be another article for the future, but the concept is very basic.

Sin is rebellion against God and His law. God cannot steal, as it all belongs to Him anyways. God cannot murder as He has given us the life we have. He cannot commit adultery because He is not swayed from His affection in the church. The responsibility of man is not based off of what God does, it's not based on whether or not man is free, rather it's based on what man does and his hearts condition.

We must believe all that the Bible says and not pick and choose what we like about God. Yes, God is love and because He is love, He must also hate. For He is the potter and man is the clay. Who are we to question God?