The Decrees of God (part 2)
In addressing some of the more specific properties of God’s divine decrees, Pink continues:
“First, they are eternal. To suppose any of them to be made in time is to suppose that some new occasion has occurred; some unforeseen event or combination of circumstances has arisen, which has induced the Most Hight to form a new resolution. This would argue that the knowledge of the Deity is limited, and that he is growing wiser in the progress of time–which would be horrible blasphemy. No man who believes that the Divine understanding is infinite, comprehending the past, the present, and the future, will ever assent to the erroneous doctrine of temporal decrees. God is not ignorant of future events which will be executed by human volitions; he has foretold them in innumerable instances, and prophecy is but the manifestation of his eternal prescience. Scripture affirms that believers were chosen in Christ before the world began (Eph. 1:4), yea, that grace was ‘given’ to them then (2 Tim. 1:9).” (p. 17)
