Sentences with phrase «doctrine of predestination»

As a small contribution to this discussion: One implication of the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination, if it really is what the Bible teaches, is that someone may spend his or her life passionately serving in a full - time church capacity and yet not be one of the elect (and therefore «saved»).

In matters pertaining to his salvation, the unregenerate man is not at liberty to choose between good and evil, but only to choose between greater and lesser evil, which is not properly free will... As the bird with a broken wing is «free» to fly but not able, so the natural man is free to come to God but not able (Boettner, Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, 62).

I do not, and never have believed in the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, so that is not an issue for me.

And if God's impassibility is interpreted as being emblematic of an imperious rule that is finally indifferent to the effect it has on the opinion of the governed — as in, for example, the classical doctrine of predestination — God appears as a tyrant who must be resisted in the name of human freedom.

Even Luther, who in his theology of the cross affirmed the suffering of God even unto death, seemed to take back much of what he said in his equally foundational doctrines of predestination and the Deus Absconditus.

The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle with the thorny questions of divine and human agency, as have home - grown religious movements like Mormonism and Christian Science....

My general aversion to the doctrine of predestination / limited atonement has unfortunately ruled out some good Presbyterian churches, and our shared skepticism regarding the prosperity gospel / signs and wonders have kept most Pentecostal churches off the list.

He associated his thought with the liberal Arminius against the dominant conservative Calvinism that insisted on the doctrine of predestination and all its consequences.

But Whitefield was a firm Calvinist, whereas Wesley couldn't swallow the doctrine of predestination.

Augustine's insight was in part a corollary of his doctrine of predestination, but it was just as much a product of his practical churchmanship.

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.

The reality is that there are some things about us that are unique theologically, and the first one is John Calvin's doctrine of special providence and — horror of horrors — his doctrine of predestination.

The belief that human history was the working out of the will of an all - powerful, all - knowing God led to a somewhat fatalistic attitude in popular Islam and to the doctrine of predestination in Christianity.

It neglected man s present concerns by concentrating on his eternal destiny, it neglected public morals by restricting itself to individual perfection, and it sanctioned social evil with its doctrine of predestination.

Brunner unequivocally rejects any doctrine of predestination that denies to man the final responsibility for how he reacts to God's offer.

But as, for example, the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination / election is probably one of the great divisive factors in the church.

My friend Steven heard them when he was told that his refusal to accept the doctrines of predestination and limited atonement represented a «rebellious spirit» against God Himself.

He believed in the doctrine of Predestination which I personally do not agree with Appollonius, specially the concept of poor and rich, freemen and slaves, etc..

The doctrine of predestination is pivotal to Barth's thought.

As I'm working on the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination (and also the doctrine of the Bride), I look forward to your posts on Calvinism.

Now after 20 years of struggling with the hardness of the human heart, I say I could never be a missionary unless I believed in the doctrine of predestination.»

Zachman suggests that the Calvin of recent scholarship emerges as a more intriguing figure than the conventional view that he was a cold, rigidly systematic thinker whose most important book, Institutes of the Christian Religion of 1559, emphasized God's judgment and the doctrine of predestination.

so 12ax7... since you are such a believer... why don't you explain the doctrine of predestination and then explain why you think YOU are one of the «chosen» and then explain how that doctrine fits in with your concept of «god»..

This doctrine of radical freedom does not mean that every possible meaning of the doctrine of predestination is negated.

That makes sense of Calvinist distaste for Arminians (even though Arminius was a Calvinist, though not a Gomarist Calvinist)-- but it does not leave much room for Wesleyans to be Christians, because Wesley's spat with Augustus Toplady (a Calvinist) was caused by Wesley's (very severe) criticisms of Jerome Zanchi's version of Calvin's doctrine of predestination.

The doctrine of predestination makes God unloving.

There was no doctrine of predestination, and evil was beyond God's purpose as something to be overcome with good.

The Presbyterian Church * stresses that the doctrine of predestination be used to free believers from the compulsion to judge others.

Predestination One of the crucial scenes in Home, a scene so important that it repeats and vastly expands on a scene from Gilead, occurs when John Ames and his wife Lila visit the Boughtons for dinner, and Jack discomfits them all by pressing Reverend Ames for his views on the doctrine of predestination.

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.