What Does 'God's Sovereignty' Mean? #shorts

What Does "God's Sovereignty" Mean?

[Ploskkky]

Craig just makes up new stuff, new terminology. I admire his creative fantasy. It is as if he dissected his god and took out all the organs.

[MG-otyr]

As the alleged "creator", or first cause, then he created people to do evil, in fact if that person was designed to do evil, and that creator god knows he will do evil, then the person cannot choose differently, must act according that that creator's foreknowledge and has no free will.

[jacobrinehart]

Bestowing free will is different than being permissive.

[thebumblebeemovie]

How do you know if someone is saying something worth considering? When half the people in the comments section only provide insults out of disagreement

[gamnamoo]

Dealing with creatures endowed with genuine freedom of moral choice is not a simple matter even to God. So, God's sovereignty should be the one that takes human free will seriously. I'm thankful to God for creating me with an ability to reject God with my will. This means that that ability is in turn the capacity to obey God and love God. If the definition of sovereignty precludes the reality of human freedom as in Calvinism, it is not so much the divine sovereignty as a terrifying dictatorship.

[davidrobinson]

Though not being a Calvinist, Craig is so close to being a Calvinist.

[cujopujato]

The gift of free will allows us to create things we desire. So the existence of things not of God's desire to us is a creation we alone have created. God allows us to create evil things because God honors free will and loves us so much that God does not interfere with your free will even if it is being used in an unloving way. This is because free will is God's Truth and God's Truth never changes. However, know this, sin is missing the mark of God's Love. What is God's Love is beyond our understanding of the reality of love. Sinning (missing the mark of God's Love) creates unloving things. Perhaps unloving each other for who knows how many eons of years to the point we perfected it and integrated it as reality. All while not seeing the actual reality that God gave us that is not gone and forgotten but written in all our hearts that we are meant to love those also who do not love us back.

[ricksonora]

Sovereignty means the right to control. The question: What degree of control does God assert? Determinism’s extreme claims that God hyper-micromanages everything. The opposite extreme would have no interference in human decisions at all (unless there’s something YOU want God to do). Between the extremes: God does just enough to achieve the goals that serve His purposes.

[sentinal]

Do we define God, or does God define us?

[MarkNOTW]

The term sovereign has been hijacked. It’s a title or a noun; not a verb.

[tarp-grommet]

"He permits certain things to occur..." Such as children who get raped and murdered. I say that if he can not at least take that off the table then either he is a monster or he does not exist. Which do you think is more likely?

[BrusqueSkeptic]

If god is Omniscient there is not a difference between him permitting something and him committing the act itself.

[osks]

You are correct in the sense that there is nothing that God sovereignly either LETS happen or HAS happen…
However, you are fundamentally wrong to assume that ‘sin’ is a moral infraction (rather than a spiritual condition as Scripture clearly teaches) - we’re not sinners because we sin, but because we’re sinners, we sin - difference!
You insist on assuming, as an unexamined theological/philosophical bias, that we possess ’free will’ (in the libertarian sense), which just ain’t so!
When you properly unpack what in fact amounts to a commitment to ‘open theism’, you’ll in fact find there’s a real tension (in fact, dissonance) in your premises…
On your argument then, you have to pray…
“Our Father who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done in heaven, but not here on earth where my will reigns supreme…”

[encouragementforewe]

Some persons in certain situations??, What about original sin? The apostle Paul says in Romans 8 that those who are in the flesh CANNOT please God.

[avideorecord]

So… over… reigns.

Apply accordingly

[AnonAnonAnon]

"What Does "God's Sovereignty" Mean?" Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not now, not when you die. Live your life now. Treat others how you would like to be treated.

[andrewjmschroeder]

I find it jarring that these videos are obviously sped up. I'd love it if we just kept them the regular speed. Craig has a great cadence to his speaking and speeding it up makes these feel rushed to me.

[SpaceCadetJesus]

I don't really think Dr. Craig defines God's sovereignty clearly, muddling along with two wills, absolute and permissive.

I'd say God's sovereignity means he, alone, is the highest authority, holds the absolute power, and is not answerable and subject to anyone.

How he reigns and what he allows is another subject.

[kiwisaram]

Then it must be that God's absolute will is that we be free if He foresaw our desire to become like God.

[buzzbbird]

Define, permits.

Permit by license, or permit by refusing to intervene?
God NEVER permits what he prohibits!
God is THE sovereign, he is the highest authority and power, above which there is no appeal.
He is sovereign in all he does. he cannot do anything in less than a sovereign way.