Q. 1. “God can do whatever He wants, wishes,
desires, etc., to do. Therefore, He can choose to ‘love’ an individual for a
time, for whatever reason or purpose He deems proper, and then choose to ‘hate’
that same individual, as He pleases.”
[With regard to the] insistence [in this
question] that God can do what He pleases (irrespective of His Being or nature)[,]
[t]his sounds very much like the arguments of the Roman Catholic scholastics
who discussed questions such as these: “Since God is omnipotent, can He create
two mountains without a valley between or a stone so heavy that He cannot lift
it? Since God is omnipotent, can He sin?” The answer to all these frivolous
questions is: God can and does only that which is in harmony with His own
divine Being or nature, and so also with truth or the law of non-contradiction.
(Herman C. Hanko, “Covenant Reformed News,” vol. 18, no. 3 [July, 2020])
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