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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.
Double predestination, or the double decree, is the doctrine that God actively decrees both the damnation of some individuals and the salvation of those He has elected. After 411, Augustine made statements supporting this view.
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.
Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. [1] Explanations of predestination often seek to address the paradox of free will, whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.
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 ...
This differs from Calvinistic double predestination, which states that a person's salvation is already determined by God such that he or she cannot choose otherwise or resist God's grace. While both Arminianism and Molinism agree that God definitively knows how a person would react to the Gospel message. Molinism relies on the concept of middle ...
Wycliffe was influenced by the Augustinian soteriology, [69] which centered on a divine monergism, [70] and implied a double predestination. [71] He argued that all events occur by absolute necessity, and that God is the author of even man's evil deeds. [72] This position led Wycliffe to become a strong proponent of double predestination.
Though the explicit teaching of double predestination by Augustine is debated, [86] [87] it is at least implied. [ 88 ] According to Nelson, Pelagianism is a solution to the problem of evil that invokes libertarian free will as both the cause of human suffering and a sufficient good to justify it. [ 89 ]