Sentences with phrase «predestination which»

«Absolute divine foreknowledge makes every event of the future just as absolutely certain as does the doctrine of unconditional predestination which declares there is a causal necessity» (FG 341).

Not exact matches

With apologies in advance to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and online legal - advice company LegalZoom — both of which I have no doubt carry the best intentions and otherwise do good work — and, with an additional shout out to John Calvin, tracking startup confidence seems an exercise in predestination.

If, as the Scriptures and experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).

And even stranger, God himself can not change the outcome, and is himself trapped in predestination, which means that God is not all - powerful.

Once God had decided upon this predestination of Christ's human nature, then he willed the union of Christ's divine nature with his human nature in the person of Christ since only a human nature united to the divine nature in one person could love to the highest extent, the extent to which God loves.

I believe that predestination does not refer to God's choice of which people get to go to heaven, but refers instead to God's determination to bring into glory all those who receive eternal life by faith in Jesus.

You don't choose who you are and what you look like, for example, that's Predestination, but you choose what you do, that's Free Will, which God DOES NOT interfere with (gives and honors,) even though He foreknows everything!

As far as I can see, all the difficulties (so called) with predestination come about through a mistaken interpretation of a few Bible passages which are then used as the benchmark for all other verses despite the fact that these verses may be saying completely different.

As such, there is absolutely nothing in predestination about God's choice of which people will get justified and which people will not.

Because God made the human being in His own image, the Calvinistic predestination doctrine implies that God decided to make a living being in His own image, of which he would beforehand already reject and condemn part?

But it would be a mistake to suppose that an Augustinian emphasis on original sin or predestination (which, oddly, Pagels does not discuss) leads inevitably to a denial of the right of civil protest or to passive submission to authority.

Jesus, some say, preached a simple message of love and brotherhood which was perverted by Paul with his legalism and intellectualism ¯ justification, predestination, and all that.

For example, when Dennis Hirota writes that Shinran «avoids a voluntaristic... view of reality, with such concomitant problems as predestination, the need for a theodicy, and a substantialist understanding of reality or of self», I applaud Shinran and hope that the Christian tradition to which I belong succeeds equally well in these respects.

There is wide disagreement among Calvinists about reprobation, which is sometimes referred to as double predestination.

Remember in Ephesians 1:5 - 6, it says that God's predestination is to the adoption as sons, which we saw from history and from Scripture means that He has promised to make us His heirs?

Add to this Augustine's doctrine of election, which amounts to double predestination, and it is a little hard to see how such a God can unambiguously be called Love, or how his acts are innocent.

(Again am not saying anything about Luther * an * beliefs, of which I know very little, other than the fact that they don't believe in predestination in the way that Luther did.

The only thing I am now less clear on is which of the two (predestination or works) forms official Lutheran doctrine — the author presents Lutheran as still holding very much to predestination as per the confessions.

But, I do want you to explain one thing: If you know that some go to heaven and some hell, and if you know that some are predestined to heaven because they receive the gift of faith and others do not, and if you know there is no way to come to such saving faith on our own (which would be a work)... how can this be anything other than predestination to hell for those for whom God withholds that gift?

However, while in his earliest work he thinks it «probable» on balance that the Word would not have become flesh unless we had fallen [5] in the later De Veritate he says that the primacy of Christ is the end to which the whole of creation is ordered and is the principle of our predestination into the supernatural life.

Which means that all those who do not accept Calvin's working - out of the doctrine of predestination, are not real Christians.

In other words, all the positive blessings of the Incarnation which can be expressed, quite apart from the redemption, would hinge upon sin - our divinisation in Christ, our adoption as sons of God, our eternal predestination in Christ... are all these blessings really because of Adam's fall?»

Christians have had similar debates, with views ranging between those who advocated «Double Predestination», which is the view that God determines those who will be saved and those who will be damned, and Pelagians who hold that human beings have freedom to choose or deny God.

But if predestination is correct, we do not actually make the choice for Christ on our own, but God enables us to make the choice, which we then automatically make even though it feels like we are making the choice on our own.

At one extreme, the Jabriya taught absolute predestination, which really makes a mockery of human freedom.

The dogma of Double Predestination is a product of human logic which can - not withstand the a-logical teaching of the Scripture.

Election also has a negative side, called «reprobation,» which involves the predestination of those who are not elect (Sproul, Grace Unknown, 141).

To the extent that we experience evil, that is due to the perversion of our wills in our failure to actualize God's intentions for us49 — which of course, unsatisfyingly, leads us right back to the previous threads of the omnipotent God's foreknowledge and predestination.

Chapter 8 furnishes the basis for the characteristic Augustinian - Calvinist concept of predestination, that some are elected to salvation and some to eternal loss, which has played such a significant role in Christian history.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minute.

Hawke is coming off of a busy year with awards season contender Boyhood; documentary Seymour: An Introduction, which he produced and directed; Michael and Peter Spierig's Predestination; Andrew Niccol's Good Kill; and Shakespeare update Cymbeline.

After making the festival rounds this year, Stage 6 recently announced a January 9, 2015 theatrical run for Predestination, which stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor.

Finally, «Previews» repeats the disc - opening ads, which promote Digital HD UltraViolet, Fury, No Good Deed, Foxcatcher, When the Game Stands Tall, Predestination, and the PlayStation - bound Powers.

Even simply in visualizing the jumps through time (which are limited to within 50 years of time travel's 1981 invention), Predestination differs from the concept's treatment in iconic fare from Back to the Future to 12 Monkeys.

CHICAGO — «Predestination» is a time travel game of limited pieces, in which two beings are not who they seem.

Thus, the picture poses the basic question: Which would win in a battle between free will and predestination?

Teachers will find Gathering Blue full of material for discussion, including the way in which events of the past shape the future, the role of the artist in society, and ways in which the conflict between predestination and self - determination affect future events.

New Thought arose in rebellion against the dominant, gloomy message of American Calvinism, which was that relentless hard work was the duty of every Christian — with the additional sting that, thanks to the doctrine of predestination, you might in any case already be marked to spend eternity in Hell.