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Election
Predestination
Free Will
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Predetermined
Outcome
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Factors influencing our choices
about which we had no choice
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Place of birth
Time of birth
Birth parents
Siblings
Genetic codes
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Oracle: Candy?
Determinism
Neo: Do you already know if I’m going to take it?
Oracle:
Wouldn’t be
much
of an oracle
I didn’t.
For everything
that
happens
thereif are
Neo:
But if you
already
how
couldconditions,
I make a
conditions
such
that,know,
given
those
choice?
nothing
else could happen.
Oracle: Because you didn’t come here to make the
choice. You already made it. You’re here to try to
understand why you made it.
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Factors influencing our choices
about which we had no choice
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Place of birth
Time of birth
Birth parents
Siblings
Genetic codes
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Our flesh
The world
The devil
God
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Genesis 50:20
You intended to harm me, but God intended
it for good to accomplish what is now being
done, the saving of many lives.
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Acts 2:22-23
"Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of
Nazareth was a man accredited by God to
you by miracles, wonders and signs, which
God did among you through him, as you
yourselves know. This man was handed
over to you by God's set purpose and
foreknowledge; and you, with the help of
wicked men, put him to death by nailing him
to the cross.
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Acts 2:22-23
"Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of
Nazareth was a man accredited by God to
you by miracles, wonders and signs, which
God did among you through him, as you
yourselves know. This man was handed
over to you by God's set purpose and
foreknowledge; and you, with the help of
wicked men, put him to death by nailing him
to the cross.
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Acts 2:22-23
This man was handed over to you by God's set
purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the
help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing
him to the cross.
Moral
Sovereign
Will
Will
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Acts 4:27-28
Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met
together…to conspire against your holy
servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did
what your power and will had decided
beforehand should happen.
…to do whatever your hand and your plan
had predestined to take place.
(ESV)
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Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the
hand of the LORD; he directs it like a
watercourse wherever he pleases.
Proverbs 16:9 In his heart a man plans his
course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Philippians 2:12-13 Therefore, my dear
friends, as you have always obeyed--not
only in my presence, but now much more in
my absence--continue to work out your
salvation with fear and trembling, for it is
God who works in you to will and to act
according to his good purpose.
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Isaiah 46:9-10 Remember the former things,
those of long ago; I am God, and there is no
other; I am God, and there is none like me. I
make known the end from the beginning, from
ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My
purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.
1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the
greatness and the power and the glory and the
majesty and the splendor, for everything in
heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is
the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.
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Absolute Free Will
“God can do anything with me that I give him
permission to do.”
Relative Free Will
Under God’s ultimate and sovereign will I am
free to make real, morally responsible
decisions.
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Westminster Confession
God ordains whatsoever comes to pass; yet
so as thereby neither is God the author of
sin; nor is violence offered to the will of the
creature; nor is the liberty, or contingency, of
second causes taken away, but rather
established.
--Sec. 3, 1
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“God’s Sovereign will...will certainly be
fulfilled. It will not be frustrated by men,
angels, or anything else. The sinner who
tries to defy God’s plan may shake his fist to
the heavens, but God will determine how
many times he shakes it and whether that
man will live to shake his fist tomorrow.”
--Decision Making and the Will of God
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1 Timothy 2:3 This is good, and pleases
God our Savior, who wants all men to be
saved and to come to a knowledge of the
truth.
Ephesians 1:4-5 For he chose us in him
before the creation of the world to be holy
and blameless in his sight. In love he
predestined us to be adopted as his sons
through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his
pleasure and will-17
1 Peter 1:1-2
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God's
elect…who have been chosen according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father,
Foreknowledge = God knew from eternity
past who would believe in Jesus so those
who would believe became his elect.
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“Whether God has decreed all things that
ever come to pass or not, all that own the
being of a God, own that He knows all things
beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He
knows all things beforehand, He either doth
approve of them or doth not approve of
them; that is, He either is willing they should
be, or He is not willing they should be. But to
will that they should be is to decree them.”
--Jonathan Edwards
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1 Timothy 2:3 God…wants all men to be
saved
Ephesians 1:4-5 he chose us…he
predestined us
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1 Timothy 2:3 God…wants all men to be
saved
Ephesians 1:4-5 he chose us…he
predestined us
Moral
Sovereign
Will
Will
Will of
Will of
Desire
Decision
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Romans 3:10-12
As it is written: "There is no one righteous,
not even one; there is no one who
understands, no one who seeks God. All
have turned away, they have together
become worthless; there is no one who does
good, not even one."
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John 6:44
"No one can come to me unless the Father
who sent me draws him, and I will raise him
up at the last day."
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John 6:44
"No one can come to me unless the Father
who sent me draws him, and I will raise him
up at the last day."
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Place of birth
Time of birth
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Genetic codes
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Our flesh
The world
The devil
God
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