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Personally, I thought Ryan was saying that the preconditionfor moral responsibility was God's sovereignty. But if 'even the wind and the waves' obey Him, then the precondition for moral responsibility can't be wholly covered by 'authority' (is 'agency' implied in the wind and the waves?).
The clarification was helpful to an onlooker
The clarification was helpful to an onlooker