Christians: “God chose people for salvation based on His foreknowledge where God looks into the future to see who would respond to the gospel message.”
Foreknowledge doesn’t mean that God suspends our free will to make our choice for us. It just means that God has always known how WE will respond to His offer of Salvation through the Blood of Christ. ✟
Calvinists, like myself, would fully oppose this statement because we don’t believe that God has to look through time to see if someone believes in God. Instead, we say that God foreknows who believes because he predestines who he regenerates.
Are you familiar with Arminianism? If not, I would ask that you look it up. That’s a faster explanation than what I can supply at the moment. I’ll check back in later.
It depends on what you mean by double predestination. I do not believe that God elects anyone to Hell. Instead, He leaves people in their unregenerate State. He does elect people to eternal salvation by saving people totally from their own sinful totally depraved state. Some misinterpret Romans 9:20-24 to effectively make God the author of sin when in reality Jeremiah shows that He hardens hearts by abandonment. You can see the same evidence in Romans 1.
We must be careful to ensure that God leaves people in their totally depraved nature. We must not say that God predestined this nature, which then you run into God becoming the author of sin.
It’s the opposite of predestination. Predestination means that God chose individuals unconditionally according to his will. This poll is the second point of Arminianism, which describes conditional election. The key difference is that Arminians believe that God looks through time to see who will believe in Christ, and as a result, elects those people to eternal salvation.
But really, more people probably agree with this poll than what they realize. Most Churches will teach some form of election, and their beliefs fit closely with this poll. This is just not a topic that many preachers preach on thoughZ
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