Examples of using Predestination in English and their translations into Chinese
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The notion of predestination comprises two essential elements: God's infallible foreknowledge(præscientia), and His immutable decree(decretum) of eternal happiness.
More recently, some argue that“union with Christ,” not predestination, is the central dogma of Reformed theology.
Predestination is in accord with God's foreknowledge of man's free choice(CG V, 9).
On predestination, Calvin wrote,"We call predestination God's eternal.
It differs from predestination ante proevisa merita in two points: first, it rejects the absolute decree and assumes a hypothetical predestination to glory;
But even when man's supernatural end alone is taken into consideration, the term predestination is not always used by theologians in an unequivocal sense.
Let him shun practical extremes and be ultra only in what is purely theoretic: let him be stringent on predestination, but latitudinarian on fasting;
Similarly eternal election to glory alone, that is, without regard to the preceding merits through grace, must be designated as(inadequate) predestination.
Scripture employs a rich vocabulary to express several aspects of God's sovereign election, choice, and predestination.
In order to emphasize how mysterious and unapproachable is Divine election, the Council of Trent calls predestination"hidden mystery".
Indeed, the soteriological significance of predestination itself consists to the Calvinist largely in the safeguard it affords to the immediate supernaturalness of salvation.
While he refers to the doctrine of predestination in passing in a number of places, he expounds the doctrine in detail in Rom.
Your predestination is to prepare yourself for it, to welcome it and to live it.
The divine purpose, or Predestination, alone could explain the distinction between good and evil, between the saint and the sinner.
Arminius rejected strict predestination, allowing for man's freedom to reject God's offer of grace.
Because of these types of laws, because of God's predestination, all beings interact harmoniously with mankind, and mankind and all beings are interdependent.
While Predestination and the Five Points are all essential elements of Calvinism, they by no means constitute its whole.
To understand the biblical teaching concerning predestination, we must commence with the account of man's fall, which was part of God's eternal plan.
All election, all predestination, all calling, and all redemption is according to this purpose- for the praise of the glory of his grace.
What the great man said here denied the predestination of fate- the god whose name he wore.
