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Is the Doctrine of Predestination biblical?
Rom. 8 29 For whom He foreknew, He also
predestined to be conformed to the image of His
Son, that He might be the firstborn among many
brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these
He also called whom He called, these He also
justified and whom He justified, these He also
glorified.
Eph. 1 5 having predestined us to adoption as
sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the
good pleasure of His will 11 In Him also we have
obtained an inheritance, being predestined
according to the purpose of Him who works all
things according to the counsel of His will
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Is the Doctrine of Election biblical?
Rom. 9 10 And not only this, but when Rebecca
also had conceived by one man, even by our father
Isaac 11 (for the children not yet being born,
nor having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God according to election might stand,
not of works but of Him who calls)
Rom. 11 5 Even so then, at this present time
there is a remnant according to the election of
grace. 28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies
for your sake, but concerning the election they
are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
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The question is
What is meant by the terms "predestination" and
"election"?
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Louis Berkhof, Systematic Theology
The Canons of Dort, 1619
"That eternal act of God whereby He, in His
sovereign good pleasure, and on the account of no
foreseen merit in them, chooses a certain number
of men to be the recipients of special grace and
eternal salvation."
"Election is the unchangeable purpose of God,
whereby, before the foundation of the world, He
hath, out of mere grace, according to the
sovereign good pleasure of His own will, chosen,
from the whole human race, which had fallen
through their own fault, from their primitive
state of rectitude, into sin and destruction, a
certain number of persons to redemption in
Christ, whom He from eternity appointed the
Mediator and Head of the elect, and foundation of
salvation."
Definition Unconditional Election
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Charles Spurgeon, Spurgeon at His Best (compiled
by Tom Carter)
R. C. Sproul, Chosen by God
"The Reformed view teaches that God positively or
actively intervenes in the lives of the elect to
insure their salvationThe rest of mankind He
leaves to themselves."
"Your damnation is your own election, not God's.
We are lost willfully and willingly, lost
perversely and utterly, but still lost of our own
accord, which is the worst kind of being lost.
From the Word of God I gather that damnation is
all of man, from top to bottom. He that perishes
chooses to perish. We hold tenaciously that
salvation is all of grace, but we also believe
with equal firmness that the ruin of man is
entirely the result of his own sin. It is the
will of God that saves It is the will of man
that damns. All true theology is summed in these
two short sentences Salvation is all of the
grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of
man."
Moderate View of Unconditional Election
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John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
"Many professing a desire to defend the Deity
from an invidious charge admit the doctrine of
election, but deny that any one is reprobated...
This they do ignorantly and childishly, since
there could be no election without its opposite
reprobation. God is said to set apart those whom
he adopts for salvation. It were most
absurd to say, that he admits others
fortuitously, or that they by their industry
acquire what election alone confers on a few.
Those therefore whom God passes by he reprobates,
and that for no other cause than he is pleased to
exclude them from the inheritance which he
predestines to his children."
Moderate View of Unconditional Election
Hard View of Unconditional Election
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Lorraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of
Predestination
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
"The doctrine of absolute Predestination of
course logically holds that some are foreordained
to death as truly as others are foreordained to
life. The very terms "elect" and "elections"
imply the terms "non-elect" and "reprobation."
When some are chosen out others are left not
chosen. The high privileges and glorious destiny
of the former are not shared with the latter.
This, too, is of God. We
"By predestination we mean the eternal decree of
God, by which He determined with Himself whatever
He wished to happen with regard to every man. All
are not created on equal terms, but some are
preordained to eternal life, others to eternal
damnation and, accordingly, as each has been
created for one or other of those ends, we say
that he has been predestined to life or death."
believe that from all eternity God has intended
to leave some of Adam's posterity in their sins,
and that the decisive factor in the life of each
is to be found only in God's will."
Calvinist definition of predestination
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Matt. 11 27 All things have been delivered to
Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except
the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father
except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills
to reveal Him.
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Rom. 8 29 For whom He foreknew, He also
predestined to be conformed to the image of His
Son, that He might be the firstborn among many
brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these
He also called whom He called, these He also
justified and whom He justified, these He also
glorified.
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Eph. 1 5 having predestined us to adoption as
sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the
good pleasure of His will 11 In Him also we have
obtained an inheritance, being predestined
according to the purpose of Him who works all
things according to the counsel of His will
Eph. 1 12 that we who first trusted in Christ
should be to the praise of His glory.
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Are all "elect" saved?
Matt.23 37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who
kills the prophets and stones those who are sent
to her! How often I wanted to gather your
children together, as a hen gathers her chicks
under her wings, but you were not willing!"
1 Tim. 5 21 I charge you before God and the
Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you
observe these things without prejudice, doing
nothing with partiality.
Is. 42 1 "Behold! My Servant whom I
uphold,      My Elect One in whom My soul
delights!      I have put My Spirit upon
Him      He will bring forth justice to the
Gentiles."
John 6 70 Jesus answered them, "Did I not
choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a
devil?"
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Forster and Martin, God's Strategy in Human
History
"The prime point is that the election of the
church is a corporate rather than an individual
thing. It is not that individuals are in the
church because they are elect it is rather that
they are elect because they are in the church,
which is the body of the elect One A Christian
is not chosen to become part of Christ's body,
but in becoming part of that body by free will,
exercising faith he partakes of Christ's
election?"
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The Remonstrance, 1610
"God has decreed to save through Jesus Christ,
out of fallen and sinful mankind, those foreknown
by Him who through the grace of the Holy Spirit
believe in Christ but God leaves in sin those
foreseen, who are incorrigible and unbelieving."
Definition Conditional Election
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1 Tim. 2 3 For this is good and acceptable in
the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all
men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of
the truth.
2 Pet. 3 9 The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some count slackness, but is
longsuffering toward us, not willing that any
should perish but that all should come to
repentance.
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Matt. 11 27 All things have been delivered to
Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except
the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father
except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills
to reveal Him.

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke
upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your
souls.
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