God's Sovereignty and Man's Responsibility
As succinctly put by a good brother, Joel Tay, at Facebook:
Man's responsibility and God's sovereignty is not at odds because man's responsibility has nothing to do with free will. Man is responsible because as a creature, he is answerable to his creator, and his creator requires perfect obedience. Whether man can keep the commandments or not is irrelevant.
Moral responsibility is therefore grounded in God's sovereignty and not man's free will (man has no free will).
And it is precisely because God is sovereign, that man is responsible for breaking the commandments.
God's Sovereignty and man's responsibility must go together. If God is not sovereign, it follows that man is not responsible. Therefore, God's sovereignty and man's responsibility is not an unknowable mystery, but a clear logical necessity, flowing from the very nature of God Himself.
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