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Against Marcion Book II ch.5 |
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"I find, then, that man was by God constituted free, master of his own will and power; indicating the presence of God's image and likeness in him by nothing so well as by this constitution of his nature . . . |
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-you will find that when He sets before man good and evil, life and death, that the entire course of discipline is arranged in precepts by God's calling men from sin, and threatening and exhorting them; and by this on no other ground than that man is free, with a will either for obedience or resistance. |
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. . . Since therefore, both the goodness and purpose of God are discovered in the gift to man of freedom in his will . . ."
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Quotes taken from God's Strategy in Human History by Roger T Forster & V Paul Marston |
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First British Edition 1989 published by Highland |
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Copyright © 1973 R. T. Forster & V. P. Marston |
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Used by permission granted 25th September 2002 |
