Pet Sayings Exposed and Exploded Number 1 "God did not want Robots"
By David Heesen
Out of the blue a gentleman came up to me after a church service and said, “You’re a free will person, aren’t you? God is waiting to bless you. We’re not robots.” I told him that my free will is what gets me into trouble. We had just sung “Have Thine Own Way, Lord,” so I reminded him that though we’re not robots, God is the potter and we are the clay. He didn’t have much more to say.
So, yes, we’re not robots. What does that mean? that we can proudly go our way independent of God’s “remote control”? Hardly. Check out Romans 9:
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory . . .
“God did not want robots.” People who say that are really speaking against God and His sovereign right to do as He pleases. They are attempting to discredit God, and disprove the glorious doctrine of irresistible grace or effectual calling. They do so because they misunderstand it, thinking that God takes people to heaven against their will. Nothing could be further from the truth.
God takes no one to heaven against their will, but He does “make them willing in the day of his power.”
God made no robots, but, instead He made vessels of mercy and vessels of wrath.
“Thou art the Potter; we are the clay.”
If you have problems with that, take it up with God. Last time I looked Romans 9:19-23 are still in the Bible.
So, yes, we’re not robots. What does that mean? that we can proudly go our way independent of God’s “remote control”? Hardly. Check out Romans 9:
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory . . .
“God did not want robots.” People who say that are really speaking against God and His sovereign right to do as He pleases. They are attempting to discredit God, and disprove the glorious doctrine of irresistible grace or effectual calling. They do so because they misunderstand it, thinking that God takes people to heaven against their will. Nothing could be further from the truth.
God takes no one to heaven against their will, but He does “make them willing in the day of his power.”
God made no robots, but, instead He made vessels of mercy and vessels of wrath.
“Thou art the Potter; we are the clay.”
If you have problems with that, take it up with God. Last time I looked Romans 9:19-23 are still in the Bible.
