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Unconditional election (also called sovereign election [1] or unconditional grace) is a Calvinist doctrine relating to predestination that describes the actions and motives of God prior to his creation of the world, when he predestined some people to receive salvation, the elect, and the rest he left to continue in their sins and receive the just punishment, eternal damnation, for their ...
The acrostic TULIP was used by Cleland Boyd McAfee as early as circa 1905. [4] An early printed appearance of the acrostic can be found in Loraine Boettner's 1932 book, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination. [5] Total depravity (also called radical corruption) [6] asserts that as a consequence of the fall of man into sin, every person is ...
Predestination of the elect and non-elect was taught by the Jewish Essene sect, [5] Gnosticism, [6] and Manichaeism. [7] In Christianity, the doctrine that God unilaterally predestines some persons to heaven and some to hell originated with Augustine of Hippo during the Pelagian controversy in 412 AD. [8]
The Thomasines thus had a belief in a type of election or predestination, they saw themselves as elect because they were born from the light. [20] Valentinus believed in a form of predestination, in his view humans are born into one of three natures, depending on which elements prevail in the person. In the views of Valentinus, a person born ...
In Christianity, particularly within the theological framework of Calvinism, election involves God choosing a particular person or group of people to a particular task or relationship, especially eternal life. Election to eternal life is viewed by some as conditional on a person's faith, and by others as unconditional.
The first to articulate the supralapsarian view were Theodore Beza [4] and Jerome Zanchius. [5] A few later Calvinists, in particular those influenced by Beza's theology, embraced supralapsarianism. In England Beza's influence was felt at Cambridge, where William Perkins and William Ames held to it, as well as Franciscus Gomarus in the Netherlands.
The 2024 election, explained. Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN. October 29, 2024 at 7:00 AM. A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter.
Election: Unconditional election. Unconditional election. [2] [12] Conditional election in view of foreseen faith or unbelief. [13] Justification and atonement: Justification by faith alone. Various views regarding the extent of the atonement. [14] Justification for all men, [15] completed at Christ's death and effective through faith alone ...