Sentences with phrase «god predestines»

Interestingly, double predestination Calvinists themselves say that «single predestination» is doubletalk: if God predestines one group, then by default He predestines the other.

If God predestines only some people to heaven, then by default He predestined the rest to Gehenna.

In single predestination, God predestines people to heaven, and people go to «Hell» due to their own sin.

1037 God predestines no one to go to hell; 620 for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end.

I definitely do not believe in double predestination, where God predestines some people to go to heaven and predestines others to go to hell.

So if God predestines one group, then by default He predestines the other.

I don't like the word sovereignty because it's the word that Calvinists use to explain why God predestines people for hell.

Unconditional election means that God predestines who will be saved and who will be damned.

Did god predestine events?

God predestined his people to be conformed to the likeness of his Son.

This is something God predestined for all Christians, and it is something that has not yet happened.

Nor is it probable that God predestined Adam to such a good, before he predestined Christ.

Process theologians generally prefer the tradition of John Duns Scotus, which holds that God predestined the person of Jesus as the crowning of creation and as the total manifestation of his love, regardless of whether man sinned.

Not exact matches

But, after a while, God saved me from that (predestined not to be Reformed, I guess).

It is said for those God knew he predestined to be children of God yet we are not predestined until by free will we choose to accept Gods calling.

If god is omniscient (all knowing), then everything is predestined.

1 PETER 1:20 Despite God's failed experiment in the Garden of Eden, the mass execution of Noah's flood and the final solution of Christ's sacrifice, Jesus was predestined to be crucified all along.

God intimately chose His people, and this foreknowing is the foundation of His predestination, so if we were to translate the Biblical meaning of foreknowledge into Romans 8:29 it would read like this, «For those whom God intimately set His affection upon beforehand, He also predestined...» And this meaning is in sync with the rest of the Bible.

elektos - chosen out) Scripture paints this picture that God has predestined individuals to become His children and inherit eternal life.

If by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, who redeems his children by the atonement and sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan of salvation revealed in the Bible and ascribed to by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.

God's people are all whom he foreknew would believe in his Son, and whom he predestined to someday be fully conformed to his righteous image.

Teaching from the pulpit, for example, that God willed Adam and Eve to sin, that cancer is predestined by God, that prayer doesn't cause anything to change in the world, and that evangelism has no purpose since sheep are sheep and goats are goats?

Three yet one, fully man / fully God, first shall be last, some element of «free» will / agency but also predestined, God in us yet we in God,... the list could go on almost forever.

That is, every human being is predestined to adoption as a child of God through Jesus Christ.

There are those predestined to be God's children, accepted and loved by God through Jesus Christ.

God only died for His, predestined elect family from eternity past.

Yet, because God's sovereign predestining grace was central to their faith, their attention to Mary should have been central and not peripheral.

Her role is so fundamental to God's saving plan of Creation and Incarnation that it was, as the Church teaches, «predestined» from all eternity.

Are there those predestined to be lost, useless to God and themselves and everyone else?

Claiming that god has predestined all of us contradicts your statement that prayer changes things.

God has willed to show forth his goodness in men by mercifully sparing some of them, whom he predestines, and by justly punishing others, whom he rejects.

Therefore Jesus Christ is predestined from the beginning, and is part of the very plan of God in the poising of matter at the creation of the universe, but so is the Holy Eucharist.

Before the world began Jesus is predestined to unite heaven and earth as God made man.

If god tries to prevent the crucifixion of Jesus but can't, because it is predestined... then god is not all powerful.

Note that Jesus forgave man for crucifying him (which was all a scam because it the crucifixion was predestined to happen and all «arranged» by god anyway)

God does not preplan or predestine or interfere with the course or end of my life.

If god has predestined an event.

~ That yes, because «love» according to my definition, is wrong, God's character can, in fact, predestine some to eternal hell.

This very contradiction shows clearly that man and the Kingdom of God are not seen by Jesus in the light of a humanistic ideal of mankind, that man as such is not predestined for the Kingdom.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

The human nature of Christ was predestined by God to that highest glory of the beatific sharing in the inner life of the divine persons.

The discrepancy between the orthodox teaching of an eternity of punishment for those predestined to damnation and the belief in God's love is one of the too rarely examined problems in traditional Christian doctrine.

Indeed Jesus and Mary are predestined by God «in one and the same decree»; the phrase is used in both Ineffabilis Deus, defining the Immaculate Conception, and Munificentissimus Deus, defining the dogma of the Assumption.

Those God has chosen He predestined to be His.

Frankly, any understanding of divine sovereignty so unsubtle that it requires the theologian to assert (as Calvin did) that God foreordained the fall of humanity so that his glory might be revealed in the predestined damnation of the derelict is obviously problematic, and probably far more blasphemous than anything represented by the heresies that the ancient ecumenical councils confronted.

Jesus is not saying that God has chosen who the sheep will be before they ever believe in Jesus, and when people hear the Gospel, only those who are predestined to be God's sheep will actually believe.

God knows what man did, does and will do because He is Omniscient but He DOES NOT predestine / cause man to do what man does.

God never predestined anyone to hell or heaven.

Theologically, it really doesn't matter whether an all - knowing God would choose to predestine most of his creation to eternal torture, or just know that by specifying such a tight requirement (Jesus — through word of mouth — or Hell), most of humanity would end up in Hell.

No, God chooses, elects, predestines, predetermines, decides, foreordains, commits Himself to make sure that every person who believes in Jesus for eternal life, will finally and ultimately be glorified into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.