Sentences with word «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.

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

Once we accept that image we must choose between the terrible decree of double predestination on the one hand and universal salvation on the other.

Paul is literally laying out a specific case for predestination.

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.

Barth uses the language of predestination not to rethink the relation of matter to spirit but to intervene in debates about Calvinism.

The reformed view of predestination teaches that before a person can choose Christ his heart must be changed.

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....

Though the crux of the problem has been shifted in a salutary manner away from predestination as a mystery of almost fatalistic darkness, the tension between God's love and God's sovereign freedom remains.

Double predestination does not require that everyone start out neutral at all.

My neighbor who is hurting or hungry cares not a whit about the differences between Calvin's view of predestination vs. Arminius» view.

In single predestination, God predestines people to heaven, and people go to «Hell» due to their own sin.

A lot of people who believe in the individual election to eternal life view say they do not believe in double predestination because of how repulsive it is, but to me, it seems the logical conclusion.

«Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) sent on an intricate series of time - travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes.

The Spierig brothers» latest sci - fi thriller Predestination (starring Ethan Hawke, as did Daybreakers) is complete and currently awaiting a release date.

Christians debate over predestination vs. free will in passages like Ephesians 1 but ignore the call to love their spouses with the love of Christ in Ephesians 5.

They made the fun vampire movie Daybreakers and then the excellent sci - fi Predestination.

We will probably never solve the theological and philosophical conflict between predestination and free will.

When we stop talking about what it means, about what predestination means, we've stopped understanding what it means to be Presbyterian... [We need to talk about] the kind of theological energy, the kind of theological positivism that is part of the Presbyterian heritage....

In my view there is a big difference between God for - knowing and Gods predestination.

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..

A closed timelike curve seems to imply predestination: We know what is going to happen to us in the future because we witnessed it in our past.

This time, The Gamesmen interview Brendan about his upcoming game Predestination.

While foreknowledge refers to God's knowledge and determination of everything that happens, predestination refers specifically to the destiny of human beings.

Although the document does not explicitly affirm predestination, its picture of God and God's role in the world leads in that direction.

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

Brendan Drain (@nyphur): I'm completely biased on this because I have a game in early access currently (a non-MMO space 4X game called Predestination on Steam), but here's a viewpoint you won't hear very often: As useful as it is for developers to have a game in people's hands for testing and feedback purposes, I don't want to do early access at the alpha stage or even crowdfund my games before the core gameplay is in place.

Those of you who appreciated Amy B.'s perspective in the comments following the last post should check out her thoughts on predestination at «A Chase After Wind.»

They will then consider whether predestination means we have no freedom in a written format.

The Spierig's also reunite with Predestination star Sarah Snook here, but Snook is unfortunately underutilized as Mrs. Winchester's niece who has recently moved into the ever - growing mansion with her son after the death of her husband.

The Blu - ray includes an exclusive 75 - minute documentary «All You Zombies: Bringing Predestination to Life.»

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

The Spierig Brothers («Daybreakers») mesmerizing film Predestination postulates that it is real, but that is only the starting point of a film that challenges us at every...

Conversations about life and death, chance and predestination run amuck between jokes and conversations with no point or direction.

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.