Views Of Predestination And The Christian Faith

This is the third week in my seven week semester in this Christian Worldview requirement. Chiefly, I am having a difficult time communicating to my professor. In reflection, Dr. Rasor can;t understand my posts any longer and my latest 60-point assignment totaled to an F. As a result, I looked ver the rubrics and the content that I produced and I demand another opinion because I think the assignment deserves a much better great. Plese, assist me in this matter, even if this situation has to go to the Dean of the school (Christian Worldview).

Very early in our Christian experiences we are taught that God is a saving and merciful God, however, some theologians such as John Calvin believed that God predestined all mankind. They are either predestined to heaven or hell. One of theologians John Calvin benchmark verses was Luke 13:23. He used this verse to show that our God is not a saving God, but indeed a selective God.

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

Predestination: A main concept in Calvinism that stated that everyone’s life was predestined, for better or for worse

The idea of predestination is not one that is so easily grasped. Many people have different ideas and understandings of what predestination is and what it looks like. Predestination is merely the concept that God already knows every decision a person makes before they make it, and that they are following a path laid before them. This is hard for people to accept, especially those who do not believe in any supreme ruler or being. John Boykin, Baylor graduate with his masters in Divinity and professor at all six Southern Baptist Seminary Extension Centers, puts the view

My personal Christian worldview is full of heavy doses of God, and plenty of drizzles of the Bible, and it was born from a combination of how I was raised, my life experiences, and my assumptions. This worldview is heavily involved as I bring up my children to love God, and do my best to be a good wife to my husband. Most of all, this combination has filled my heart and soul with the conclusion that God is my all!

One of the main questions that we face is whether or not, we as humans have genuine freedom. Are we free to make our own choices? Do we decide what happens in our lives in the future? Or are our lives set pathways in which we have no say at all? Are all our choices already decided? In other words, do we have free will or are our actions pre-determined, or both? Hard determinists, libertarians and soft determinists all set out to provide answers to these questions, holding different views on whether or not free will and determinism are compatible. Both hard determinists and libertarians believe that free will and determinism are incompatible but hard determinists

Predestination, in the dictionary, is said to be "the doctrine that God in consequence of his foreknowledge of all events infallibly guides those who are destined for salvation." Scripture has 2 very good passages for defining what predestination is: Jeremiah 1:5 which says "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." God is talking about Jeremiah in this passage and how God chose him before time; he was predestined for his job. Romans 8:28-30 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed

This can be seen as even in the year 429 BCE, when Oedipus the King is written, there is the idea that we cannot change our fate and that our life is predestined. This idea can still be clearly seen today in many religions such as Calvinism (carm.org) who believe that God has created a plan for everyone that has ever existed and who ever will exist and whether or not they will go to heaven or hell. If it has been such a prevalent idea throughout history how do we know that this isn’t true and that we actually don’t have any free will and if we do have free will to what extent do we actually have control over what we are meant to do and who we are meant to be. Do we all have a prophecy in this world or is it old stories such as Oedipus the King and others that have implanted the idea of predestination and the lack of free will that is put forward in this book. Is it possible that plays like Oedipus have changed the and formed the way people have thought for centuries and

Whether clearly defined or not, everyone holds a worldview. Through life, travel, study, and contemplation, I have sought to clarify and substantiate my worldview. When comparing my beliefs to various other worldviews, mine stands up as logical and rational. Most importantly, my Christian worldview can be applied to contemporary problems and even explain many of the world’s issues. Though the Christian worldview is one of the most criticized, it provides substantive answers instead of more philosophical questions. After all, a worldview is only worthwhile if one can explain and defend their beliefs.

Are all events predetermined? Does everyone have a prophetic destiny that they must fulfill? If so, who determines their fate? Who—or what—binds them to their fixed ending? Is there really no way to resist? Is fatalism—the theory that all events are preset and inevitable—true? And if it is—is there ever such a thing as free will?

My worldview thus is a set of fundamental of my beliefs through which I view the world and my calling and future in it. The premonition may be so manifested that it goes largely unquestioned; it may be greatly refined through cultural-historical development; it may not be straightforward and developed into a systematic creation of life, or it may not even be deepened into a philosophy. Nonetheless, this perspective is a passage for the subsequent belief which gives orientation and meaning to life. It is the unifying and revelatory framework by which order evaluated, the standard by which reality is managed and followed. It is the set of hinges on which all our everyday thinking and doing turns. Although a worldview is held only by

Central to the argument, though, both structurally and in terms importance, is the notion of predestination.  The other aspects of the argument - man's free-will, and the means by which they shall be saved - are contained within that single word, for behind it lies the entirety of the argument that Milton lays out in Chapter IV of De Doctrina Christiana.

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

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