[Providence] insists that everything (yes, everything) that happens does so because God wills it to happen, wills it to happen before it happens, wills it to happen in the way that it happens. Such a view signals immediately that history is not arbitrary or fortuitous; neither is it “simple determinism,” “Que Sera, Sera” or, “whatever will be, will be,” as though our own choices and involvement have no relevance whatsoever, a fatalistic view more reflective of Islam than biblical Christianity.
— Derek Thomas (b. 1953), Theologieprofessor, Pastor und Autor
Topics: Guidance & God's Will, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Wisdom & Understanding
Occasions: For Reflection
Derek Thomas
Derek Thomas (* 1953) ist ein britisch-amerikanischer Theologieprofessor, presbyterianischer Pastor und Autor, der in Nordirland sowie den USA lehrte und predigte. Er steht für eine klassisch-reformierte Bundestheologie und Schriftauslegung, geriet jedoch 2018 wegen ungekennzeichneter Textübernahmen in einem Kommentarband in die Kritik. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk heute Zugänge zur calvinistischen Theologie und Auslegungspredigt im konservativ-evangelikalen Raum.
All quotes by Derek Thomas (8)
Blaise Pascal
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.
Craig Groeschel
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
John Henry Newman
Chance is the pseudonym God chooses when he wants to remain incognito.
Albert Schweitzer
What was not in my plan lay in God's plan.
Edith Stein
Outside the will of God, There's nothing I want. Inside the will of God there's nothing I fear.
A.W. Tozer