@FromWarWithLove

1 year ago

Calvinists have their own interpretation of “predestination”, but don’t think that predestination is not biblical because the apostle Paul speaks about it in Ephesians 1 and Romans 8. Just needs a traditional interpretation of predestination where it does not mean that God unilaterally chooses to regenerate certain hardened sinners for salvation, and passes over the rest (before they are even born and have committed sins) because that’s just his choice.

My interpretation: God predestines (sets up a plan) for every person who genuinely becomes a Christian to be sanctified and made holy in his sight. That God will ALWAYS take away the power of sin on a person’s life; the propensity to be morally weak as they were before regeneration/salvation. Paul confirms this with Ephesians 2:10 - “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

I agree with the rest of your points though. Calvinist-leaning Christians dress up Calvinism with fancy words such as “reformed theology” or “doctrines of grace” in order to fool people into attending their services. Just call it for what it is. A pretend doctrine that originated from a former gnostic (Augustine of Hippo) and later became adopted by the leading reformers of the 16th century (Calvin, Luther, Zwingli) when they wanted to “go back” to the “true Christianity”. Should have looked at the church fathers who came before the 4th century, let alone the New Testament.

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