Predestination is Wrong 8
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.
Errant Judgment:
Why did God create us unable to do right, but then judge us for doing wrong?
See, if God predestined whom He would save, then it is mandatory that He would have made us incapable of accepting Him.
The whole reason God created man was so that we would worship Him of our own accord (our own free will). To say that we need God to apply irresistible grace to work His plan of salvation is not an attack on man - it is an attack on the nature of God. It makes fun of God by implying that He made man so incapable of anything, that in order for Him to be worshiped by us, He has to make us do it. Where is the glory, if we are simply puppets on a string?
If we are incapable of accepting Him, then we are incapable of doing anything right.
If we are incapable of doing right, why are we condemned for doing wrong?
8/8 - Written 4/2012
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.
Errant Judgment:
Why did God create us unable to do right, but then judge us for doing wrong?
See, if God predestined whom He would save, then it is mandatory that He would have made us incapable of accepting Him.
The whole reason God created man was so that we would worship Him of our own accord (our own free will). To say that we need God to apply irresistible grace to work His plan of salvation is not an attack on man - it is an attack on the nature of God. It makes fun of God by implying that He made man so incapable of anything, that in order for Him to be worshiped by us, He has to make us do it. Where is the glory, if we are simply puppets on a string?
If we are incapable of accepting Him, then we are incapable of doing anything right.
If we are incapable of doing right, why are we condemned for doing wrong?
8/8 - Written 4/2012
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