‘Hidden’ Equity
The closest Piper gets to addressing it is
when he quotes Augustine (from the latter part of his life).
“Let this truth, then, be fixed and unmovable in a mind soberly pious and stable in faith, that there is no unrighteousness with God. Let us also believe most firmly and tenaciously that God has mercy on whom He will and that whom He will He hardeneth, that is, He has or has not mercy on whom He will. Let us believe that this belongs to a certain hidden equity that cannot be searched out by any human standard of measurement, though it’s effects are to be observed in human affairs and earthly arrangements.”
Augustine became increasingly fatalistic, in some ways, similar to the manichaean/gnostic/stoic culture he was surrounded by, which he was a part of, before his encounter with Christ in Romans 13:14
Buddhists also believe that what we call God, is ‘unknowable’ i.e similar to the term ‘inscrutable’ frequently used in reformed circles …
#tulip