Sentences with phrase «by predestination»

I've always been a doubt - bedeviled Christian, and whereas when I was younger it was the multiple issues raised by predestination and hell that caused me the most concern, the older I get it seems that it is issues raised by Heaven that trouble me more.

You position in Christ is not impacted by predestination or a view contrary to that.

I've always been a doubt - bedeviled Christian, and whereas when I was younger it was the multiple issues raised by predestination and hell that caused me the most concern, the older I get....

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His early religious outlook was colored by the evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.

The Baptist tradition, as shaped by American revivalism in the Great Awakenings, has generally leaned toward Arminianism, a modified version of predestination proposed by Jacob Arminius (d. 1609) that allowed a greater role for human cooperation in salvation.

Just the other day I came across something by Piper where he was explaining his belief in double predestination, namely that «Just as God chooses whom He will save without regard to any distinctives in the person, so also he decides whom He will not save without regard to any distinctives in the individual.»

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).

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Acts 13:48, believe, Books by Jeremy Myers, Calvinism, election, predestination, Theology of Salvation, TULIP, Unconditional Election

God is Redeeming Books Bible & Theology Topics: Books by Jeremy Myers, Calvinism, election, justification, predestination, Re-Justification of God, Romans 9, TULIP

The metaphysical result was the God who does not suffer, who is unaffected by what happens in time, the God of absolute predestination and unfreedom.

They were first rent, overthrown, and destroyed by the violence of the controversy on the doctrine of predestination; they were secondly crushed and scattered by the «Reformation» of Mr. Campbell; they were thirdly severed and prostrated by the Landmark controversy.

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.

Thank you for sharing your view on «predestination» — I googled this due to my troubled spirit resulting from having a precious sister in Christ — extremely brilliant student of Biblical theology, etc. — verbally wipe me out with shaking finger in face, followed by multiple disturbing emails just short of accusing me of apostacy due to my view on this doctrine — my view is the same as yours.

It could contain doctrines that were not inherently understandable (such as the doctrine of the trinity), or that seemed to be self - contradictory (such as the full humanity and deity of Jesus), or that were contradicted by other doctrines (as, for example, human freedom by divine predestination, or God's omnipotent goodness by human sin).

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.

NoTheism, predestination is a belief by Calvin.

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The chapter seems to give very obvious examples of predestination and tells us sternly to not question the matter by saying «Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God?»

God is z Bible & Theology Topics: Books by Jeremy Myers, Calvinism, election, John 15:16, predestination, Theology of Salvation, TULIP, Unconditional Election

Romans 9 - 11 has been used to justify anti-Semitic belief and behavior and has led to all manner of speculation about election and predestination and faith versus works and true religion and who is chosen by God and who is not.

[1] For more reading on this subject try: The Other Side of Calvinism by Laurence Vance, Beyond Calvinism and Arminianism by C. Gordon Olson, The Dark Side of Calvinism by George Bryson, Calvinistic Paths Retraced by Samuel Fisk, Election and Predestination by Samuel Fisk, and God's Strategy in Human History by Paul Marston and Roger Forster.

He believed in predestination as an essential element of salvation by faith alone.

When, for example, Paul sets out to discuss such abstruse doctrines of theology as those of predestination, election, and justification by faith, in the middle chapters of the Epistle to the Romans (chaps.

And, by a significant transference of the idea of predestination to another category of explanation, Jesus was sometimes thought of as actually pre ~ existent: not merely as having existed, as it were, in the foreknowledge and intention of God, but as a divine or heavenly being who had existed in another dimension before his human birth.

Predestination does not apply if God is not bound by the time and space he created.

It is difficult (at least as Arminius saw it) to square these key tenets of his thought — that providence is subordinate to creation and that God creates to spread and share his goodness — with traditional Reformed theology and the notions of election and predestination affirmed by the Reformed.

The ability to love implies, thirdly, that we risk our existence in a relationship where predestination, in the sense of determination by something less than person will, would destroy the meaning of love.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Books by Jeremy Myers, Calvinism, election, foreordination, predestination, reprobation, Theology of Salvation, TULIP, Unconditional Election

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Books by Jeremy Myers, Calvinism, election, predestination, Theology of Salvation, TULIP, Unconditional Election

And while predestination of some kind is the Bible, it is something else to say that the very specific two-fold positive predestination taught by Calvin is in the Bible.

Their leading theologian was Jacob Arminius, a former student of Beza who had become convinced that predestination as taught by Calvin was untenable.

Single - predestination Calvinists claim that God did not force sinners to sin, but by His predetermining the Fall of mankind, and by His unwillingness to help sinners escape sin, He rendered their sin certain, and thus actually predestined them to Gehenna.

One other example: we read the Tawney — Weber thesis that Calvinism contributed to capitalism and the Puritan work ethic by its doctrine of predestination, since Calvinists were encouraged to work very hard so that their riches, as their just reward, would be evidence that they were the elect.

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

When it was time to celebrate that middle finger, the other team of predestination and inherent doom was across the plaza, buoyed at least a little bit by the idea of what was going on across the way.

The much more detailed kind of predestination implied by closed timelike curves, where it seems that we simply can not make certain choices (like walking away after meeting a future version of ourselves), is bothersome.

Blessed with the predestination of lineage, the hero inevitably becomes the hero he or she was destined to be since time immemorial — a revelation that precludes any greater awareness of the world (and effectively quiets the revolutionary kernel of the Robin Hood legend) in favor of a self - centered heroism granted by divine right.

And so, in what feels like their true follow - up to their highly underrated and underseen 2014 time travel flick, Predestination, the brothers Spierig take on the real life mysteries likely still held within the walls of the winding Winchester mansion that is located in San Jose, California and was constantly under construction by the widowed Sarah Winchester for thirty - eight consecutive years until her death in 1922.

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.

Because the few set - pieces soak up the majority of the budget, it is never apparent that Predestination is put together by a group of unknown directors, using a relatively new yet promising actress in Sarah Snook and two veterans to the acting profession that often take a cut in pay if the story is there (Hawke and Tayor).

Jigsaw was written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger (Piranha 3D and Sorority Row), directed by Peter and Michael Spierig (Daybreakers, Predestination).

Written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead, Daybreakers) and based on the short story «All You Zombies» by the late Robert A. Heinlein, Predestination is said to be an ingeniously constructed puzzle - box, as emotional as it is thrilling.

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A series of set - ups without punchlines that compensate for the deficiency by featuring a truly impressive number of random de-pantsings, people caught in unlikely tableaux that are inevitably mistaken for some sort of sexual deviancy, and a stable of stock characters so locked into their exploitative roles that existential questions of predestination and choice tickle at making the picture interesting.

Directed by The Spierig Brothers (Jigsaw, Predestination) and co-written by Tom Vaughan and The Spierig Brothers, Academy Award - winner Helen Mirren (Best Actress, The Queen, 2006) stars as the infamous and eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester, who stops at nothing to protect her family from the evil spirits haunting them.

Winchester was directed by The Spierig Brothers (Jigsaw, Predestination) and co-written by Tom Vaughan and The Spierig Brothers.

Predestination is the third feature film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig.

If you really like the movie, though, you'll want to watch «Bringing Predestination to Life» (1:16:30), a feature - length making - of documentary that takes us through production week by week.

Jigsaw is directed by German filmmaking brothers Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig, of the films Undead, Daybreakers, and Predestination previously.

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