The doctrine of predestination literally only increases your faith, makes you realize God is even more powerful, caring, and protective than you thought, and gives you an overflowing abundance of things to be grateful for. How is anyone against this? 😂
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"Oh Lord, everything good in me is from You, the rest is my fault" - That one really got me 😂 what a great way to put it
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"God decided I will go to hell, but it's my fault for going to hell" Predestination is a joke 😂
2 weeks ago | 22
Predestination breaks down when analyzed philosophically. The grace needed for salvation is dependant on our cooperation with God. If it were not, then we would not have free will.
3 weeks ago | 27
Calvinists when free will is applied to their theology (it falls apart faster than a house made of cards in a hurricane):
3 weeks ago | 24
God does not pre ordain people to hell. Rather, 'wishes every man be saved'.
3 weeks ago | 14
St Paul would run out of paper writing letters to all you... heretodox.
2 weeks ago | 7
Predestination, does not remove free will to me. It makes sense, that God the Father, would have this knowledge, and would have a different experience than our own. To me, all my choices, and my personality is to me my own, I am not a Robot. But as Christ knew what awaited him on the cross, God knows how man's days will end. I am grateful for the experience of not knowing how and where my choices will take me, but I accept that almost everything is outside of my control. Except that thing that is faith, which I suppose any man can grasp for at anytime.
3 weeks ago | 7
Predestination tells me that I have no choice in my salvation. If I'm of the "elect", then no matter what I do, I'm saved. If I am of the "damned", then no matter what I do, I'm going to Hell. This teaching completely contradicts the Church Fathers and 2000 years of Holy Tradition. Calvinists are obsessed with St. Augustine, but don't seem to realize that: 1) They take many of his writings out of context or misinterpret them and 2) that Augustine had flawed theological takes on certain issues due to him not knowing Greek and not being able to reference Greek texts. He read pagan Roman philosophers like Cicero, but Cicero was wrong about many things because he did not know Christ. It's a humble reminder that Saints are not infallible, and that our Most Merciful God does not expect perfection to reach the Kingdom of Heaven.
3 weeks ago (edited) | 6
I dont agree with Calvinism, and I wont insult you for it, but you should mind how messages like this come across.
2 weeks ago | 2
I used to oppose the teaching of Predestination. However, after actually reading Sacred Scripture for myself I came to the conclusion that one who believes in Christ does so because God predestined him to. This is the teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas 🇻
2 weeks ago
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Predestination doesn’t make sense to me because why spread the gospel if the people who hear are destined to go to hell? I couldn’t see Jesus being like, nah not you guys don’t matter. He died for all of us. Predestination is corrupt to me because it’s not fair. It is commonly stated that god is all good and a fair god, so what of those born on remote islands where no part of the Bible has ever been? Did god make some people hopeless? I think where predestination does make sense is when we begin to do his will. God has a plan for us, but all the time we do what we want. God wants us to be just like Jesus but we fall short all the time. And more on that it says that you will not be tempted beyond what we can handle. If it was predetermined it never mattered because it was always decided. Predestination also means god made some people, his children since we are all his children, rapist and murderers and defilers. Imagine if god was just like yea you know how that guy killed an entire family? Yea that wasn’t free will but I drew that up in my spare time. I do see where people make the connection to it but it doesn’t seem fair to me but I’m not god so I don’t know if predetermination is real but we should all spread the gospel and let people believe they can be saved because what about those who just lean In to it and say well I’m going to hell anyway.
3 weeks ago | 3
To all the people writing the comments defending this position, you can't just say that we have free will and then say but *insert something that's contradictory to it*. You have to defend the idea that free will is consistent with the Calvinist idea that only certain people are chosen by God and everything in the future has already been set. This is an incredibly hard position to defend
2 weeks ago | 1
The issue is that predestination isn’t saying the obvious that everything is predestined from God’s perspective, but “Calvinists believe that, at the beginning of time, God selected a limited number of souls to grant salvation and there's nothing any individual person can do during their mortal life to alter their eternal fate.” I struggle to see how someone can get this from Scripture and while I don’t think it’s true, I’m not willing to say it’s damnable heresy or anything like that. It can definitely easily be misconstrued though.
3 weeks ago | 1
Predestination is in fact from hell, and using Augustine is crazy
3 weeks ago | 4
I know that he is loving and faithful and I trust I him. I don’t need to understand everything. I just need to believe what the Bible says if I don’t like it what it says and that’s my problem.. he is God G he is Lord L. He’s Perfect
2 weeks ago
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The absence of free will ceases to make our God a just God. How can God keep us eternally separate from him for a "choice" that we didn't really make? How is that fair?
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