Sentences with phrase «predestination because»

Total depravity provides an intellectual cushion to the blow of predestination because it explains why no one deserves salvation to begin with.

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.

Not exact matches

I was most nervous about this interview, mainly because discussions about predestination, salvation, limited atonement, and sovereignty tend to elicit strong emotional reactions from me.

The injustice of the situation was troublesome enough, but when my friends insisted that Zarmina went to hell because she was a Muslim, I began wrestling with some serious questions about heaven, hell, predestination, free will, God's goodness, and religious pluralism.

There would be no theology classes or midrash or Bible studies or 2:30 a.m. dorm room debates about predestination and free will... because there would be nothing for us to talk about.

Because God made the human being in His own image, the Calvinistic predestination doctrine implies that God decided to make a living being in His own image, of which he would beforehand already reject and condemn part?

But if Paul is saying what you think He is saying, then this passage must be about double - predestination, first because they weer chosen before they had done anything good or bad, meaning they were in fact positionally neutral, and secondly, because they were specifically chosen for apoliea or destruction.

We are eternally secure in the hands of God because of his election and predestination.

But since «to elect» simply means «to choose,» I believe we can take this passage as a key text on election and predestination, because the term «he chose us» is found in this verse.

And so if people go to hell it is because of their own fleeing God, rather than their predestination to hell.

But, I do want you to explain one thing: If you know that some go to heaven and some hell, and if you know that some are predestined to heaven because they receive the gift of faith and others do not, and if you know there is no way to come to such saving faith on our own (which would be a work)... how can this be anything other than predestination to hell for those for whom God withholds that gift?

«Again, if the Fall were the cause of the predestination of Christ, it would follow that God's greatest work was only occasional, for the glory of all will not be so intense as that of Christ, and it seems unreasonable to think that God would have foregone such a work because of Adam's good deed, if he had not sinned.»

So just because someone identifies himself or herself as a Calvinist does not mean they believe in double predestination... and, conversely, just because someone thinks of election corporately does not mean that they can not think of it individually as well.

In other words, all the positive blessings of the Incarnation which can be expressed, quite apart from the redemption, would hinge upon sin - our divinisation in Christ, our adoption as sons of God, our eternal predestination in Christ... are all these blessings really because of Adam's fall?»

They were a middle finger to the idea of predestination, the sense of inherent doom that existed because all available evidence suggested it should.

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.

We would also have to abandon free will — because witnessing part of our future history implies some amount of predestination.

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).

Those looks are deceiving, though, because Predestination is a relatively small deal commercially.

If «Predestination» gets lost amid the praise for «Boyhood,» it is in part because the film derives its punch from a plot best revealed only in the broadest terms.

This time, The Gamesmen have an interview with Brendan and Tina about updates to Predestination; they also talk about a tutorial play of Cuphead, a government block because of Fight of Gods, the Equifax data breach, The Binding of Isaac's mod team, and a man shooting at -LSB-...]