God controls people’s wills
ROMANS 9:14-18
What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For he says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’ So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.’ So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
Romans 9:14-18
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God causes people to succeed and fail
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:7
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God Causes People to do Evil
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.’ So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills… Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Romans 9:17-18,21-22
God causes people to believe or not eblieve
2 CORINTHIANS 4:3-4
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
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God gives people life and takes it away
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.”
Deuteronomy 32:39
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God wounds and heals people
For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.”
Job 5:18
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God causes pregnancy and birth
PSALM 113:9
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Psalm 113:9
