Objection: The Faith Confession Movement Tends Strongly to Emphasize God’s Faithfulness at the Expense of God’s Freedom

I know the point the objector is trying to make, but this saying just gets more laughable the more you think about it.  The objector thinks that God needs the sovereignty to do whatever He wants regardless of His Word whereas the faith confession movement stresses that He will keep His Word.  Is that too much to expect from a God who has exalted His Word above His name (Psalm 138:2) and settled it forever in heaven (Psalm 119:89)?

Apparently, the objector thinks that God has the freedom to be unfaithful to His Word.

Why should we put less of an emphasis on God’s faithfulness?  If anything, we should put MORE emphasis on it, as many people do not appreciate that God MUST keep His covenant because He cannot lie.

The objector thinks, “If you make the rules, you can break the rules.”  But God isn’t a rule-breaker.  He is so consistent with His own rules that when Adam totally blew it, let death and corruption into the earth and promoted Satan to being the god of this world, God never rescinded His giving of the earth to men.

Dead religious thinking like this objector’s logic is what keeps many people from ever getting healed.  They simply have no ASSURANCE that God will perform what He promised.  Because faith is the 100% assurance of something unseen, any consideration that God will make a sovereign exception to His Word is an instant faith-killer.  If you think that God is The Lord Who Heals You, but then you think that He can decide not to be your Healer in your particular case for some sovereign reason, you will never receive anything.  If you do not trust God to keep His Word, you do not trust God at all.

Does God have the “freedom” to turn away a sinner who wants eternal life through His Son?  Of course not!  So why think that He has the freedom to break any other of His promises?

Suppose a judge who sentenced a man for drug dealing went out and made his own drug deals because he thought, “I AM the law, so I can BREAK the law at my pleasure?”  You would have no respect for him and you would call him a hypocrite.  If you think God has the freedom to be unfaithful, you will never respect God because to you He will be like that hypocritical judge who says one thing and does another.