Concurrence
Compatibilism
Providence · 6 verses
Scripture affirms compatibilism, wherein divine sovereignty and human responsibility coexist harmoniously. God's eternal decree encompasses all events while humans act voluntarily according to their desires, both truths being simultaneously and fully valid without logical contradiction.
Scripture References
“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
“And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”
“The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.”
“The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.”
“Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,”
“Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:”