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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 ...
Double predestination is the idea that not only does God choose some to be saved, he also creates some people who will be damned. [ 10 ] Some modern Calvinists respond to the ethical dilemma of double predestination by explaining that God's active predestination is only for the elect.
[121] [122] John Calvin states: "By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life , others to eternal damnation ; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other ...
Faith formed by charity (fides caritate formata) – with man's free will restored, man must now do his best to do good works in order to have a faith formed by charity; and then; Condign merit (meritum de condigno) – God then judges and awards eternal life on the basis of these good works which Aquinas called man's condign merit.
The doctrine of predestination "does not stand at the beginning of the dogmatic system as it does in Zwingli or Beza", but, according to Fahlbusch, it "does tend to burst through the soteriological-Christological framework." [24] In contrast to some other Protestant Reformers, Calvin taught double predestination.
In response, Augustine proposed a view in which God is the ultimate cause of all human actions, a stance that aligns with soft determinism. [10] [11] The Augustinian view is therefore referred to as "divine monergism". [12] However, Augustinian soteriology implied double predestination, [13] which was condemned by the Council of Arles (475). [14]
According to David G. Burke, Ruckman was a believer in "King James Onlyism". [11]Ruckman said that the King James Version of the Bible, the "Authorized Version" ("KJV" or "A.V."), provided "advanced revelation" beyond that discernible in the underlying Textus Receptus Greek text, believing the KJV represented the final authority in all matters of faith and practice.
How narrow is the gate and strait the way that leads to life, and few there are that find it," (Matt. 7:13,14) many have inferred that there are very few elect, who are saved. [2] [3] However the number of the elect is generally an open question with no conclusive answer, as evidenced by the fact that there is no Catholic dogma concerning the ...