Debating Predestination
Does Infralapsarianism lead to Supralapsarianism?
Sunday, September 23rd, 20072:59 pm
Within Calvinism there are two main views concerning the logical order of God’s decrees. All Calvinists, obviously, believe in Unconditional Election, meaning that God’s election of some to salvation is not based on any merit or action of fallen man. There is, however, some debate as to whether election is conditional on the fall of […]
Total Depravity and Arminianism
Wednesday, July 20th, 200512:20 pm
The five points of Arminianism are generally misstated these days when they are compared to the five points of Calvinism. Usually the five points of Arminianism are said to be thus:
1. Free Will
2. Conditional Election
3. Unlimited Atonement
4. Resistible Grace
5. One can lose one’s salvation
This is convenient because it corresponds with the five points […]
Is predestination just?: Chosen By God (chapter 2 part 6)
Wednesday, March 2nd, 20059:39 am
I have at last retrieved R.C. Sproul’s book on predestination out of the trash can. I had accidently knocked it in one day. I know not whether I did this because God eternally decreed that it be knocked in, or by the freedom of my own will (not that I freely knocked […]
The Answer to The Gabe
Monday, January 17th, 20059:16 am
The Gabe has made some interesting comments in response to my last post which was previously posted last time. It is best, therefore, that you read the last post and the comments on it before you read this one. Actually, come to think of it, it is best that you cease reading […]
Sproul’s problem of evil - Chosen By God (chapter 2 part 5)
Tuesday, January 11th, 20058:52 am
Sproul, as we have discovered earlier, was struck by a Ping-Pong ball, and was thus introduced to the problem of evil. Sproul does not really deal with the question of why God would allow evil to come into existence, his focus is on how evil could have come into existence. If […]
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