Quotes About Predestination

If we are supposed to learn about love from God, then the idea that God predestined us to sin, which results in our eternal damnation and requires God's Son to die on the cross, teaches us very little about love.

Dios fuera del tiempo sería omnipotente, pero ya no podría socorrernos puesto que nuestros actos se sitúan en el tiempo. Si Dios trasciende el tiempo, ya conoce el futuro. ¿Por qué habría de preocuparse del progreso de la lucha de los hombres contra el mal si ya conoce todo con antelación?.

Everything's explained by the constant intervention of Allah. And whatever happens had to happen, and was decreed at the beginning of time, and there's no way of even imagining how anything could have been different from what it is.

of mankind through His Son before the creation. And

important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other

Really important meetings are planned by the soul long before the bodies see each other

George L. Bryson rightly states: Calvinistic election says to the unregenerate elect, "Don't worry, your depravity is no obstacle to salvation," and to the unelect, "Too bad, you have not been predestined for salvation but [to] damnation." 9

On November 5 he landed at Torbay, on the coast of Devon. Reminded that it was the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, he remarked to Burnet, "What do you think of Predestination now?

declares, "I alone know the end from the beginning" (Isa. 46:10).His message includes history written in advance. We call this prophecy.

There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen. Hitsuzen...A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible.

Finally, Calvin's exposition of the Psalter shows that predestination is not so much a distinction between merit and grace as one between man and God, human honor and God's honor.

This election to glory is not some general decree of God about saving the faithful and the godly, who shall persevere in their faith and piety to the end of their life; but a particular designation of certain individual persons, whom God has enrolled as heirs of salvation. It is not consistent with the perfection of God, to ascribe to him general and indeterminate decrees, which were to receive any determination or certainty from men.

I can't believe the land chose me.

So many stories are determined before they start

The will of God is God's predesigned purpose for your life. The will of God is being what you are, who you are, where you are at the time. Since the steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord (Ps. 37:23), then each part of your life is directed, even when the circumstances seem otherwise.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

He was no great believer in destiny, Archie, but on reflection it did seem that a special effort of predestination had ensured his life had been picked out for him like a company Christmas present—early, and the same as everyone else's.

He was no great believer in destiny, Archie, but on reflection it did seem that a special effort of predestination had ensured his life had been picked out for him like a company Christmas present - early, and the same as everyone else's.

Everything that happens is according to destiny.

El destino de cada individuo encaja -invariablemente- con el destino de otro, siendo cada cual héroe de su propio drama mientras figura, simultáneamente, en un drama que le es ajeno. Todo esto es algo que escapa a nuestro poder de comprensión y cuya posibilidad sólo podemos concebir en virtud de una maravillosa armonía preestablecida. - Arthur Schopenhauer

was the product of fate, or chance, or luck, or even divine will.

Arminianism has no explanation as to why God purposefully and deliberately creates those who He knows will be lost and who will spend eternity in hell.

the Arminian makes a fatal concession. Figuratively speaking, he cuts his own throat, for the simple reason that as God foresees those who will be saved, He also sees those who will be lost! Why, then, does He create those who will be lost? Certainly,

There is no such thing as chance, or fortune; nor is there a readier way to gain the fear of God, and to put our whole trust in Him, than to be thoroughly versed in the doctrine of Predestination.