Edward’s own Reformed view of God’s Sovereignty, which teaches that every single thing that happens was predestinated before the world began, means that the apostasy that did happen was in fact predestinated by God.
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The Lord never guaranteed that every man would understand that revelation as it was intended. We know from Scripture itself that they did not.
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In Edward’s view of God’s Sovereignty, i.e. in the Reformed / Calvinistic view, every single thing that is done or that occurs was / is predestinated. That means that if (since) there was an apostasy, a loss of proper understanding of eschatology, then that apostasy was foreordained / predestinated by God.
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It should be obvious that Edwards actually disparages reliance on Sola Scriptura. He castigates “private interpretation” based on a distorted application of 2 Peter 1:20. Scripture no where- EVER – devalues private study, individual interpretation as Roderick Edwards does.
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