Things Hard to be Understood | by Rob Thiele | Volume 22, Issue 1 | January - February 2016
John Calvin taught that men were predestined to salvation or damnation. He considered these outcomes to be in the province of God and ultimately outside our comprehension. We reject that understanding but might nonetheless be confused by the apostle Paul’s use of the term “predestinate” in Romans 8 and Ephesians 1. What did he mean? How are we to understand that term in the context of Divine foreknowledge and our freewill?
There seems to be a certain impertinence in considering this subject. Are we not pondering the imponderable? Do we truly imagine we can comprehend the outworking of a Divine purpose expressed long ago and certain of fulfilment according to Divine foreknowledge. “Known unto God are all his works …
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