When this post is completed you will still say, yes, but what about this. This post is not intended to answer all of your questions about predestination, I do not even come close to being that wise. The goal is to give an explanation that is different than what the reader may have heard.
The Calvinist are convinced that God is absolutely Sovereign, So far so good, I believe that. That does not mean that he could not delegate to us the power of free will, John 10: 34. If your boss delegates authority to you he, normally, will expect you to use it responsibly and if you do not he has the power to take that authorty from you. The Calvinist believe that God choose some, from eternity past, to go to heaven and others to go to hell. If that is true then why does the Bible in John 3: 16 say " For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. That whosoever believes in him might not perish, but have everlasting life." If the Calvinist are right then God is an unjust liar. Then how are we to escape this paradox?
Romans 8:29 says that those God foreknew, he “also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son.”
The Bible says "those God foreknew." The predestination is based on his foreknowledge and not on his power to pull the puppet strings. He did not predestined some for heaven and some for hell. We who are saved are predestined "to be conformed to the likeness of his Son." If God is (personifies) love, 1 John 4: 8, then it is reasonable to believe that he also personifies justice. I can not concieve of love without justice. Of course, I am a prisoner of my finite understanding, but to me to predestine a soul to everlasting torment, without giving that soul a chance to repent of its sins, would be an absolute injustice. Please, read and think about the verses that you see below.
The Calvinist are convinced that God is absolutely Sovereign, So far so good, I believe that. That does not mean that he could not delegate to us the power of free will, John 10: 34. If your boss delegates authority to you he, normally, will expect you to use it responsibly and if you do not he has the power to take that authorty from you. The Calvinist believe that God choose some, from eternity past, to go to heaven and others to go to hell. If that is true then why does the Bible in John 3: 16 say " For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. That whosoever believes in him might not perish, but have everlasting life." If the Calvinist are right then God is an unjust liar. Then how are we to escape this paradox?
Romans 8:29 says that those God foreknew, he “also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son.”
The Bible says "those God foreknew." The predestination is based on his foreknowledge and not on his power to pull the puppet strings. He did not predestined some for heaven and some for hell. We who are saved are predestined "to be conformed to the likeness of his Son." If God is (personifies) love, 1 John 4: 8, then it is reasonable to believe that he also personifies justice. I can not concieve of love without justice. Of course, I am a prisoner of my finite understanding, but to me to predestine a soul to everlasting torment, without giving that soul a chance to repent of its sins, would be an absolute injustice. Please, read and think about the verses that you see below.
Ephesians 1:5 says that God “predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ.”
Ephesians 1:11 adds that “in him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.”
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