The Bible Teaches For There Is One God

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death" (Rom 8:1-2). Paul believes if you are in Christ Jesus, then you will be saved. Because of Jesus ' selflessness, he has freed us from sin and death. God had created the world

God gave men the free will to elect their own salvation. There is no sin until it is actually committed. Sin was now considered a voluntary act. It also consists of a change of heart, which revived the concept of limited atonement. Christ did not die for only a select few predestined elect, but for whosoever will accept God’s offer of salvation. Personal commitment also involved an active and useful Christian life in which individual action brings the kingdom closer.

The purpose of elections is to allow the people to voice their opinions on who they wish should hold public office in the government. Whichever candidate has the most votes, win the election.

A question that we all need to understand that is rarely interrogated is, why do we have elections in the first place? America is too big and complexed to hold public referendums on individual issues, although some states try to do it, this is called complexity. So in the case we choose representatives, we vote for people and not policies. Political scientist have a much broader way of describing this, in terms of adverse selection. “Adverse selection is a problem that can arise when we make a choice but do not necessarily have all the information we need to make that choice.” So we have elections, they help to solve this problem because they are ideally competitive. The competition creates incentives for candidates to give information about themselves and to make most of that information accurate since their opponent will call them out for any statements that are less than truthful. Elections supposedly also makes candidates more accountable since they provide voters a chance to get rid of the bad impersonators. The Election you might think is important enough to be included in the constitution, however it is not, although “the constitution does set up a few basic guidelines that structure american elections, but most of the important rules that defines the way elections are carried out come out of state laws, legal decisions, and local administrative practices. So the constitution does not really say a lot about election, but mostly about choosing the President and it

God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, therefore a predetermined path of righteousness or condemnation is contradictory to the core values of Christianity, as it eliminates the need for the will to be saved by Christ. This shows that God does not control our actions, in hopes that we live in accordance to him.

The Electoral College is the constitutional system for the election of the president and vice president of the United Sates. It is the collective name for a group of electors, nominated by political

Predestination is the belief that a person’s life after death is already determined by God the day they were born while the “blank slate” philosophy is the belief that what a person does in their lifetime on Earth determines their afterlife. Congregational churches like the ones most commonly found in the New England area preached the “blank slate” philosophy therefore encouraging the parishioners to constantly commit good deeds so they can travel to heaven in their

Populace elections, like most states in the world, provide that every vote carries the same weight in the race as any other. It also ensures that the president is elected honestly by all people. The populace votes to make sure that instead of sending the representatives to vote, people make their votes independently (Lewis, 2016). It is also redundant for elections to be voted twice; first by the majority then by the

That God decreed to leave some in the common misery and not to bestow on them living faith and the grace of conversion. Calvin also believes that God predestined everything for everything that it does, such that God predestined me to be writing this report right now for my religion class, so that this isn't my own free will but it was God's set plan for me. Zanchius, a Reform Theologian, writes that there is most certainly a double predestination and gives passages to prove through God's Word that there is no other way. II Cor. 4:3 "If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing." I Peter 2:8 "They stumble because they disobey the message-which is also what they were destined for." II Peter 2:12b "…They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish." Jude 1:4a "For certain men who were marked out for condemnation long ago have secretly slipped among you." He concludes his arguments by saying that God could not erase a name that has been placed in the book of life or add a name because it was from eternity. He quotes Luther with, "This is the very thing that razes the doctrine of free-will from its foundation, to wit, that God's eternal love of some men and hatred of others is immutable and cannot be reversed."

For example, in the Bible, followers are taught to obey God’s teachings and that God has already set up a plan for us as shown in these quotes from Galatians 5:16-17 and Proverbs 16:9, respectively: “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires from the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want,” and “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.” In these quotes, it is almost clear that although humans have some kind of free will, it is all in the end attributed to God. However, it is important to note that one Christian philosopher, Mortimer J. Adler, was able to find and identify three main kinds of freedom found in the Bible.

Faith versus Fatalism Can you remember this song? “Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be. The future's not ours, to see. Que Sera, Sera!” Doris Day sang this song, and since 1956 it has been a worldwide hit.

Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote Summa Theologiae 1.23 Of Predestination (Eight Articles) Article 5: Whether the foreknowledge of merits is the cause of predestination? Saint Thomas also believes foreknowledge of merits is the cause of predestination but he believes there are two ways to determine predestination. He says, “Wherefore, that which flows from free-will is also of predestination. We must say, therefore, that the effect of predestination may be considered in a twofold light--in one way, in particular; and thus there is no reason why one effect of predestination should not be the reason or cause of another; a subsequent effect being the reason of a previous effect, as its final cause; and the previous effect being the reason of the subsequent as its meritorious cause, which is reduced to the disposition of the matter. Thus we might say that God pre-ordained to give glory on account of merit, and that He pre-ordained to give grace to merit glory. In another way, the effect of predestination may be considered in general. Thus, it is impossible that the whole of the effect of predestination in general should have any cause as coming from us; because whatsoever is in man disposing him towards salvation, is all included under the effect of predestination; even the preparation for grace. For neither does this happen otherwise than by divine help, according to the prophet

The election process in the United States is a valuable process to the election of the proper officials to satisfy the people. The people run the country which is why we live in freedom because we control what happens with major decisions by choosing whom we want to decide these decisions. The whole country goes to vote on a certain day and by the end of that day we will vote to select who will run the country, state, county, or city political positions. The most complex decision and one with the biggest impact are selecting who the President of the United States shall be. We examine what their views are and who would do a better job. Then vote in our respected states with a certain number of electoral votes

John Calvin’s doctrine of predestination is arguably one of the most important results of the Protestant reformation. Predestination is the belief that “salvation[entrance into heaven] is given to only those whom god has chosen”. The chosen people were called the elect. John Calvin wrote this important belief during the era of the Protestant Reformation. People often formed negative opinions on predestination or let it rule their lives. Some people who did not think like Calvin loathed predestination because they believed that

God did not change his mind about who he would accept as the chosen, but when Jesus died on the cross, He opened the doors to everyone who accepts Christ to be God’s child. This label of being God’s child show that God wants to be in a relationship with His creation. Man was made uniquely in the image of God.