Predestination is a doctrine in Calvinism dealing with the question of the control that God exercises over the world. In the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, God "freely and …

Mar 28, 2025 · Predestination in Calvinism highlights God’s choice in determining who will be saved. Key elements include the concept of divine election, insights from Ephesians 1:3-4, the …

We, indeed, ascribe both foreknowledge and predestination to God; but we say, that it is absurd to make the latter subordinate to the former.

Calvin and Luther saw predestination as protecting the doctrine of justification by grace. They understood Christians to be people who have received the undeserved gift of faith from God, …

We call predestination God’s eternal decree (aeternum Dei decretum), by which he compacted with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition, …

John Calvin: “If what I teach is true, that those who perish are destined to death by the eternal good pleasure of God though the reason does not appear, then they are not found but made …

Jan 31, 2024 · Within the Calvinist tradition, predestination is viewed as a reflection of God’s control and authority in determining the eternal destiny of individuals. This means that God, in …

At the opposite extreme is the notion of double predestination, commonly identified with Calvinism and especially associated with the Synod of Dort (1618–19) and appearing also in some of the …

Calvin regarded soteriological predestination as God’s eternal decree, by which he compacted with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition: …

Jan 26, 1996 · John Calvin's great theological work, the Institutes of the Christian Religion was published, and expanded, in a number of Latin and French editions. (In fact it was among the …