Specifically, do you believe that God has already chosen those who would believe in Him, before He created the world.
2006-09-13 05:54:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I do believe in predestination because Scripture everywhere proclaims with sufficient clearness that God has determined what will happen to us; for He chose His own people before the foundation of the world and passed over others.
Eph.1:3-6
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
2006-09-13 06:07:27 · answer #1 · answered by Hope 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
that's a lose-lose any way you look at it. whether loose-will existed, that's an exceedingly very susceptible rigidity. Our strikes and judgements have been put in place by ability of the previous activities. If circumstances have been a fraction of a fraction diverse, then we would have made a various determination. this ability we've an exceedingly constrained sphere of administration over who we are, or what we do. With this in ideas, predestination might make first rate experience--different than that God creates souls knowingly to deliver to hell. does not look that merciful and loving. on the different hand, God isn't omniscient or prescient. God -can not- see the destiny, or understand which direction humanity will take. that ought to truly be a strike against an all-effectual, all understanding writer. the greater valuable assumption is that there is not any Hell. There won't be in a position to be if God is accustomed to each little thing and is merely and righteous, on the grounds that ought to intend that he created billions of souls to torture for eternity, understanding completely nicely that they have been going there. the terrific assumption is that God does not exist as you think of of him.
2016-10-14 23:17:32 · answer #2 · answered by reus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure thats a Calvinist belief, so yes some Christians believe in that sort of predestination. This belief was considered heretical by the Catholic Church and the Calvinists were extremely strict in their practices which alienated many other groups of christians.
I'm not Christian, so the question doesn't really apply to me, but I hope that info helps.
2006-09-13 06:01:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No God wants everybody to be with Him in heaven but we have to chose to accept christ to get into heaven. And I kinda understand people that ask that same or similar question; to you and other people there are part of the Bible that seem to suggest God has already chosen who will go where, but that's a misunderstanding; The people that God chose to be in heaven are the ones who accept Christ.
But weather or not someone accept Christ is completely up to the individual.
2006-09-13 06:07:06 · answer #4 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Very few people give a good definition of predestination.
What is God like? If He is truly outside of time (since He created it) He can see the past, present, and future.
Sure He knows what we are going to choose, but that does not mean it is anyones choice but ours.
There are two sides to this question. God knowing what we will do, and us choosing to do it.
We are llimited in our view, thus get easily confused between the two.
2006-09-13 06:01:18 · answer #5 · answered by John S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a difference between predestined, and predestination!
Only one who was predestined can commit the unforgivable sin!
2006-09-13 07:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Predestination is a false concept because it makes God a liar. God has made it clear to us that we have the ability to choose and He expects us to make good choices in order to grow and progress and to return to live with him. If that ability was in reality nonexistent, it would make the scriptures, and God, a liar.
Foreordination, on the other hand, is the potential for us to achieve certain things during our lives. It is still subject to our decisions in life...but the possibility is there and the expectation is there that we can achieve great things during our lives.
2006-09-13 05:57:22 · answer #7 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
John 15:16
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love
what do you think? sure sounds like it, huh?
I don't believe so much that he chose but rather he knew who would believe, even before we were born. I believe in foreknowledge, not predestination.
2006-09-13 06:00:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes
Jesus came so that none would be lost (Matthew 18:11). Of those, however, who do not do the will of the Father in Heaven Jesus will say, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness" (Matthew 7:23).
2006-09-13 05:57:59 · answer #9 · answered by pops 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so and I hope that my name is on the list.
2006-09-13 05:59:20 · answer #10 · answered by Mrs. Butler ♥2 B♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋