Predestination is Wrong 2

First Monday of the month. 12-noon. It's time to tackle the cult of predestination again.

Note:
God most certainly predestinates events and certainly did predestine to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for the World, so that the World, through Him, might be saved.

However, God most certainly does not predestinate whom shall be saved. 

The notion that God determines whom shall be saved is called "unconditional election," and is a false doctrine. Those who would teach it are, by definition, false prophets. To teach false doctrine is, by definition, heresy.

The main, root problem:
The root of the problem with Calvinistic thinking - specifically with the notion that God predetermines who goes to Heaven (and by default, whom goes to Hell) - is pride. These people feel a need to be better than other people in some way and have found no other way to be better. It is a warped way of thinking and it is founded in pride.

In this series, I shall disprove the notion of the predestination of whom shall be saved.

Last time we looked at verses in the Bible that some predestination cultists try to twist in failed efforts to prove predestination of certain people by God.

So let's tackle a concept that predestination cultists themselves absolutely hate to bring up. If God predestines whom will be saved, and if the Bible is true, then God (by default) predestines whom will not be saved. This is clear because the Bible states that not all will enter Heaven.

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Matthew 7:21-23 -

“Not everybody who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will get into the kingdom of heaven. Only those who do the will of my Father who is in heaven will enter. On the Judgment Day, many people will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name and expel demons in your name and do lots of miracles in your name?’ Then I’ll tell them, ‘I’ve never known you. Get away from me, you people who do wrong.’

 Jesus' own words indicate that not all will enter Heaven. There are many other passages, but I feel this one applies to Calvinists, Lutherans, and other predestination cultists who were saved, in their opinions, by God having "elected" them, instead of by placing their faith in God and asking is forgiveness of their sins.

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Here's the deal: if God predestines whom will be saved, then by default, He also predestines whom will not be saved. This is so unscriptural it's not even funny.

But don't take my word for it: Pastor Chuck Smith agrees.

But suppose you don't like Chuck Smith. OK, then let's just go to the Bible. Some verses to consider, which prove that God does not predestine some for Hell:
I Timothy 2:4

[God] who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

II Peter 3:9

The Lord isn’t slow to keep his promise, as some think of slowness, but he is patient toward you, not wanting anyone to perish but all to change their hearts and lives.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You who kill the prophets and stone those who were sent to you. How often I wanted to gather your people together, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you didn’t want that.

So it is clear that God does not want any to perish. 
How can this be if He predestines some for Hell?

This question cannot be explained by predestination cultists. 
The closest to an explanation you will see is a lame rationalization that predestination is God's Holy decision and that this rule of logic does not apply for this reason or that. None of it really ever makes sense, and none of it is Biblical. Just man-made mumbo-jumbo.



2/8 - Written 4/2012