Providential Adversity as Justification
The VIP-designated doctrine that calumnies, persecutions, and contrasts are divinely permitted to strip creaturely supports and return the soul to aloneness before God — the “devastating hail” mechanism of justification and sanctification through adversity. (E)
Anchors: Romans 8:28; Hebrews 12:5–11; Jeremiah 17:5–7 — Appearances: 3. Full Registry entry.