The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like...

He chooses us, not because we believe, but that we may believe; lest we should say that we first chose Him” (Augustine). Faith receives the electing love of God not as if it had already...

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in...

There’s nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability…Blame thyself

Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Whoever means whoever. Not just some, not just the elect; that means that anyone who wants to come to God and repent may do...

No attempt should be made to “reconcile” Yahweh’s hardening of Pharaoh’s heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart.The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by...

The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked, that the power of choice had been simply set aside and an inflexible...

what if” scenarios–what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?–because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been...

If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only they have any chance of being saved, then ‘love’ has no intelligible meaning...

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course.

This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that...

You believe in Destiny, don’t you?””Yes,” said Leah quietly.”Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs.” –...

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

God wanted us to do something, and we went the bad way. Then he said “No!, I am not going to lose what I want done!, So I’m gonna save this people and restore their...

War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.

It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone

Free Will : “I made you think so.”Predestination: “I knew you had to.

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world...

Free-will followers should learn more about “somebody’s bitch”.Predestination followers should learn more about “sexual fantasy.

Predestination therefore, as it regards the thing itself, is the Decree of the good pleasure of God in Christ, by which He resolved within Himself from all eternity, to justify, adopt, and endow with everlasting...

Pandora’s Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.