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The English word reprobate is from the Latin root probare (English: prove, test), which gives the Latin participle reprobatus (reproved, condemned), the opposite of approbatus (commended, approved). The doctrine is first found in Jeremiah 6:30, but also found in many passages of scripture such as Romans 1:20-28, 2 Corinthians 13:5-6, Proverbs 1 ...
The difference between the two views are minute; supralapsarianism, by virtue of its belief that God creates the elect and reprobate, is a suggestion or provides an inference that at some level, God decreed sin to enter into the world without being the author of it.
This suggests that the two do not operate in the same way. The term "equal ultimacy" is sometimes used of the view that the two decrees are symmetrical: God works equally to keep the elect in heaven and the reprobate out of heaven. This view is sometimes erroneously referred to as "double predestination", on which see above. R. C.
Anal retentiveness is a personality trait that is characterized by excessive concern with details. [1] The concept originated in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, where one aspect of the anal stage of psychosexual development is pleasure in the retention of feces.
The reprobate angel was created by God's will "to bring forth his seed, or generation of wise, and prudent, subtle serpent-men and women to oppose the Creator and his innocent seed." [7] "Woe be to the inhabitants of the earth for the devil is come down amongst you." [8] Evil came to the earth because the serpent seduced Eve. Cain was born to ...
Engraving of the Prodigal Son as a swineherd by Hans Sebald Beham, 1538.. Backsliding, also known as falling away [1] or described as "committing apostasy", [2] is a term used within Christianity to describe a process by which an individual who has converted to Christianity reverts to pre-conversion habits and/or lapses or falls into sin, when a person turns from God to pursue their own desire ...
8-9 Reprobate sinners shall not be as the righteous before God; 10 God exalteth the righteous but bringeth to nought the devices of sinners; 11 The desert made green by rainfall a type of the resurrection; 12 God, who is man’s Creator, knoweth all things; 13 God’s mercy to man seen in the waters; 14 Day, night, the sun, and moon glorify God
Here we have the reason for the condemnation in the previous verse, i.e. pride and haughtiness, since Jesus lauds the "little children".Christ uses the word for confess (Ἐξομολογοῦμαί) which is used regularly in the psalms, e.g.