The Struggle of Surrender
Untitled by Mark Tennant I believe that the Bible is entirely true. I believe that it is the infallible Word of God, and that no part of it is false or wrong. I also believe that God has complete authority over all things. However, I have recently found a distinction between what I believe and what I am comfortable believing, particularly regarding God's authority. The book of Romans makes it fairly clear that, at least to some extent, predestination does exist. I don't plan to get into an intense theological argument here, but I bring this up to make an example. I believe the truth of what the Bible says about God's predestination of certain peoples and His authority to execute that predestination. However, I grapple repeatedly with the justice of this action; I struggle to reconcile God's love for all people with the idea of an elect. God is just, and Paul even explains in Romans 8 how this idea is just, but to my human mind, it is very difficult to be comfortable wit...
