Sentences with phrase «with predestination»

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.

Blessed with the predestination of lineage, the hero inevitably becomes the hero he or she was destined to be since time immemorial — a revelation that precludes any greater awareness of the world (and effectively quiets the revolutionary kernel of the Robin Hood legend) in favor of a self - centered heroism granted by divine right.

But Jarrett's victory on Sunday, his third in the 500, had less to do with predestination than with the car that Parrott, Ramey and the rest of Jarrett's crew built for him.

If Presbyterians have problems with predestination, they must stand agape before this utterly boxed - in future.

However, just based on the in your face predestination (an actual word in the Bible, unlike free will) verses and stories, if my salvation depended on it, and it doesn't, I would have to go with predestination based on Romans 9 and Ephesians 2 specifically, plus many other verses of course.

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.

Calvinism with its predestination answered many issues of the day effectively.

Not exact matches

With apologies in advance to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and online legal - advice company LegalZoom — both of which I have no doubt carry the best intentions and otherwise do good work — and, with an additional shout out to John Calvin, tracking startup confidence seems an exercise in predestinatWith apologies in advance to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and online legal - advice company LegalZoom — both of which I have no doubt carry the best intentions and otherwise do good work — and, with an additional shout out to John Calvin, tracking startup confidence seems an exercise in predestinatwith an additional shout out to John Calvin, tracking startup confidence seems an exercise in predestination.

Not only does this idea solve the problem of predestination and free will but is much more in line with the idea of God.

It is a verb that means to have intimate knowledge beforehand of those whom God elected to salvation and it goes hand in hand with the word «predestination.»

God intimately chose His people, and this foreknowing is the foundation of His predestination, so if we were to translate the Biblical meaning of foreknowledge into Romans 8:29 it would read like this, «For those whom God intimately set His affection upon beforehand, He also predestined...» And this meaning is in sync with the rest of the Bible.

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....

I wish to add one other favourite expression I have been confronted with when explaining my «deviant» non Calvinistic understanding of predestination — Armenian heretic.

Finally, this series of posts on election will close with an explanation of what I believe the Bible teaches about election and predestination.

And in the process there was an erosion of Augustinianism that emphasized the soteriological significance either of human will in a form of synergism or of human cooperation with the divine and a growing attack on such classic Protestant doctrines as limited atonement and predestination.

Those claiming that there is predestination toward damnation would have a problem with the following verse (and others): «This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.»

I could never understand how traditional Calvinists could accept double predestination and still resonate to the painting of Christ standing and knocking at a door with the handle on the inside.

In high school I remember arguing with Presbyterian friends about predestination.

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

Once God had decided upon this predestination of Christ's human nature, then he willed the union of Christ's divine nature with his human nature in the person of Christ since only a human nature united to the divine nature in one person could love to the highest extent, the extent to which God loves.

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.

On the other hand, there were other men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul would live on forever, that the wicked would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up with the doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination (some would be saved, the rest would be damned); and Jerome, who would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what would become the Latin Vulgate and would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching eternal torment.

Like Spurgeon, early Southern Baptist leaders rejected hyper «Calvinistic theology with its anti «missionary bent, while embracing distinctively Reformed views on predestination, perseverance, and particular redemption.

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.

BTW predestination has nothing to do with lost people getting saved.

You don't choose who you are and what you look like, for example, that's Predestination, but you choose what you do, that's Free Will, which God DOES NOT interfere with (gives and honors,) even though He foreknows everything!

Thank you for sharing your view on «predestination» — I googled this due to my troubled spirit resulting from having a precious sister in Christ — extremely brilliant student of Biblical theology, etc. — verbally wipe me out with shaking finger in face, followed by multiple disturbing emails just short of accusing me of apostacy due to my view on this doctrine — my view is the same as yours.

Jeremy, as far as I can see you're spot on with your comments on predestination.

I also agree with this explanantion of predestination, Jeremy.

The Protestant Reformation seems to have started and progressed inevitably, with the certitude of predestination.

Jesus, some say, preached a simple message of love and brotherhood which was perverted by Paul with his legalism and intellectualism ¯ justification, predestination, and all that.

For example, when Dennis Hirota writes that Shinran «avoids a voluntaristic... view of reality, with such concomitant problems as predestination, the need for a theodicy, and a substantialist understanding of reality or of self», I applaud Shinran and hope that the Christian tradition to which I belong succeeds equally well in these respects.

The problem with Calvinism (not Calvin) is not that there is some truth in predestination (God is God after all) but that it makes predestination the starting point and framework of its theology.

My friend agreed that this was indeed so for the human use of these words but insisted that when used in connection with God fore - ordination and freedom, predestination and our own responsibility for our end, were compatible.

The chapter seems to give very obvious examples of predestination and tells us sternly to not question the matter by saying «Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God?»

It's been my, albeit limited, experience that as the Calvinist believers that I've associated with these past four decades have come to know the Lord Jesus closely in their walk, they have either abandoned their belief in predestination or it has faded far into the background in importance in their theology.

During the great awakenings of the eighteenth century, John Wesley and George Whitefield stopped cooperating with one another due to differing beliefs about predestination.

Some people are scared of predestination, but we should not be — for whatever it is, it begins with the love of God.

[3] Predestination has to do with the believer's future, not with the believer's past.

So with this understanding of predestination in mind, let us go on to consider what Paul says about predestination.

Election has to do with God's people, predestination deals with God's purposes.

... The idea that God's will to save is accomplished in Christians with their conversion is obviously not connected with the thought of predestination, but rather with that of conferring status (Delling in Kittel, TDNT, 29).

Yet there is a problem with saying that God's predestination is based upon what He forsees will happen, for what if God foresees something that destroys or stops His plan for the world?

I believe in a God with a monstrous love for EVERYBODY and double predestination doesn't fit well into that.

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.»

I'd wrestle with free - will vs. predestination or the divinity of Christ and the incarnation, the Trinity, the atonement, and general church history on my own at home for the most part.

Thus, predestination is a concept men come up with to explain how God knows those who will choose to believe before they were even born.

This is not predestination as choice still needs to be made once presented with the truth.

It is difficult (at least as Arminius saw it) to square these key tenets of his thought — that providence is subordinate to creation and that God creates to spread and share his goodness — with traditional Reformed theology and the notions of election and predestination affirmed by the Reformed.

This is not predestination as choice still needs to be made once presented with the truth --------- Of course this will surprise no one, but you're not answering the question!