Sentences with phrase «called predestination»

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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.

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.

If we were to include these other four terms inside Paul's chain of events, the list would look like this: Foreknowledge, predestination, proclaiming the gospel, faith, regeneration, calling, justification, faithfulness, sanctification, glorification.

There remains the deep mystery of divine predestination: «Those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son... And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justifed» (Rom.

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