Sentences with phrase «ordained by his decree»

«Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree.»

Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree (Calvin, Institutes, III.xxiii.7).

Not exact matches

Compatibilism is an attempt to reconcile the theological proposition that every event is causally determined, ordained, and / or decreed by God (i.e., determinism, not to be confused with fatalism)-- with the free will of man.

Jesus might have denounced SOME instances of violence because not all violence in the OT was ordained, but other instances were decreed by God, so Jesus wouldn't have refuted that, otherwise He would be refuting Himself: