I am new to this point. Being somewhat of a student of the philosophy of language I tend to view such points about human subjective concept ideas about God rather carefully. It seems though that the point of contention sometimes used about prescriptive and descriptive will pertains to efforts by some to define what they think God should be like, and if it is too cruel that some are elected to be saved while others are doomed to eternal hell.
One poster named Robin Phillips wrote; "God’s prescriptive will is what God commands to be the case, while God’s decreed will is what He makes to be the case." http://blogs.ancientfaith.com/orthodoxyandheterodoxy/2014/01/21/why-i-stopped-being-a-calvinist-part-3-calvinism-dislocates-god-from-our-experience-of-him
In fact the entire trouble about pre-destination and where free will fits in to it is fascinating when one considers quantum physics, yet even so man is just dirt without so much as a worm-like status without God's will-descriptive I suppose. If his prescriptive will is what it is so much the better for everyone that they get any sort of communication at all while existing. Who really knows why the potter shapes the clay the way he has except the artist? Some might want light without darkness, being without nothingness, hot without cold, mountains without valleys and so forth in a temporal Universe. Why evil exists yet God is perfectly good may be a cloud-of-unknowing sort of theological concern that Plotinus might have dwelt on even as a philosopher; why did God issue anything to begin with; why did the Word start light in motion? Maybe the answer is that all possible things exist for any omnipotent and omniscient God anyway and such question stimulate thought in his creatures.
One poster named Robin Phillips wrote; "God’s prescriptive will is what God commands to be the case, while God’s decreed will is what He makes to be the case." http://blogs.ancientfaith.com/orthodoxyandheterodoxy/2014/01/21/why-i-stopped-being-a-calvinist-part-3-calvinism-dislocates-god-from-our-experience-of-him
In fact the entire trouble about pre-destination and where free will fits in to it is fascinating when one considers quantum physics, yet even so man is just dirt without so much as a worm-like status without God's will-descriptive I suppose. If his prescriptive will is what it is so much the better for everyone that they get any sort of communication at all while existing. Who really knows why the potter shapes the clay the way he has except the artist? Some might want light without darkness, being without nothingness, hot without cold, mountains without valleys and so forth in a temporal Universe. Why evil exists yet God is perfectly good may be a cloud-of-unknowing sort of theological concern that Plotinus might have dwelt on even as a philosopher; why did God issue anything to begin with; why did the Word start light in motion? Maybe the answer is that all possible things exist for any omnipotent and omniscient God anyway and such question stimulate thought in his creatures.
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