Basic Biblical Christianity #014 - WCF 3.1 - God's Immutable Pre-Creation Decree / Counsel / Plan

WCF 3.1 God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass:(1) yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,(2) nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.(3)

(1) Eph. 1:11; Rom. 11:33; Heb. 6:17; Rom. 9:15,18.
(2) James 1:13,17; 1 John 1:5.
(3) Acts 2:23; Matt. 17:12; Acts 4:27,28; John 19:11; Prov. 16:33.