ABSTRACT
The acts of God derive from His knowledge and will, and whatever issues from knowledge and will is freely chosen. Nothing that proceeds from choice is obligatory to the free in essence in His choosing. None of His deeds proceed from Him of necessity as He essentially is. All are agreed that the acts of God are always in wisdom. Even the extremists, as well as those who take a mediating position, alike hold the view that there is nothing frivolous about the acts of God or deceptive in His world. Yet despite this agreement they started feuding and disputing over the text and its meanings, without reaching any clear terminus. The necessity of wisdom in His works belongs with the necessity of perfection in His knowledge and will—a truth which has never been in dispute. The same is to be said of the necessity of His promises and retributions being realized.
