How do we reconcile God’s sovereignty and human will? How do we reconcile those two things when those things are suffering or tragedy? Does that mean God decreed our suffering from eternity past? If God is in the business of decreeing what happens in this life, what choices we make, what suffering we endure, what does that say about human will and human sin?
A 500-year-old document offers us help to understand how these things work together. It's called the Westminster Confession of Faith. It might be old, but it’s spiritually profound.
We will consider the confessions' first two points of chapter 3 along with it's scriptural proofs. This is a long one, but I think it will be worth your while.
