who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The LORD works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.
Not a Chance
Published by: Sam Crabtree
July 27, 2010
After receiving encouraging feedback in response to recent blog posts about troublesome speech, and especially “good luck,” I decided to offer a few excerpts from R.C. Sproul’s book Not a Chance.
“It is logically impossible to ascribe any power to chance whatsoever.”
“If chance rules, God cannot. Indeed chance requires little authority at all if it is to depose God; all it needs to do the job is to exist.”
“If God is not sovereign, he is not God. If he is not God, he simply is not. If chance is, God is not. If God is, chance is not.”
“How much influence or effect does chance have on the coin’s turning up heads? My answer is categorically, 'None whatsoever.'”
“Chance has no power to do anything. It is cosmically, totally, consummately impotent. Chance has no power to do anything because it simply is not anything. It has no power because it has no being. It is no thing. It is nothing. Nothing cannot do something. Nothing is not. Chance is not.”
“What are the chances that chance can do anything? Not a chance.”
Pastor Sam Crabtree is Bethlehem's Executive Pastor and Lead Pastor for Life Training.