In The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, Loraine Boettner writes, “Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness, and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to shortsighted and perverted self? Those who reject God’s sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.” Although the notion that God sovereignly ”foreordained whatsoever comes to pass” seems repulsive to man’s innate sense of independence and self-sufficiency, the alternative is significantly less “attractive.” If God is not sovereign, then man is left at the senseless whim, as Boettner mentions, of fate and chance or the sinful whims of man’s innate nature. There is no hope for the suffering that their suffering is anything more than a random and purposeless events. There is no comfort that God has the power or inclination to lift man out of his pain and misery. Obvious, this argument does not serve as a "proof" of God's sovereignty. It is simply an emotional appeal (since most objections to God's sovereignty are emotional appeals).
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