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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 ...
In that view, God, before Creation, in his mind, first decreed that the Fall of Man would take place, before decreeing election and reprobation. So God actively chooses whom to condemn, but because he knows they will have a sinful nature , the way he foreordains them is to simply let them be – this is sometimes called "preterition."
The Old Testament applies the term "elect" (Biblical Greek: ἐκλεκτος; Biblical Hebrew: בָּחִיר) to the Israelites insofar as they are called to be the chosen people, people of God, or faithful to their divine call. The idea of such an election is common in Deuteronomy and in Isaiah 40-66. [1]
Before the foundation of the world, by sheer grace, according to the free good pleasure of his will, [God] chose in Christ to salvation a definite number of particular people out of the entire human race which had fallen by its own fault from its original innocence into sin and ruin. [7]
The film begins with the Creation. God creates the heavens and earth, including the first man, Adam and the first woman, Eve. Both live in the utopical Garden of Eden until a Serpent convinces Eve to disobey God by eating a fruit from the tree of knowledge, and in turn Eve convinces Adam to do the same. God punishes the serpent all and banishes ...
The Chosen Prince (1917) David and Bathsheba (1951) David and Goliath (1960) A Story of David (1961) Saul and David (1964) The Story of David (1976) Greatest Heroes of the Bible: David & Goliath (1978, TV episode) King David (1985) Dave and the Giant Pickle (1996) David (1997, TNT Bible Series) King George and the Ducky (2000) David and Goliath ...
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90 Minutes in Heaven is a 2015 Christian drama film directed by Michael Polish and starring Hayden Christensen, Kate Bosworth, Hudson Meek, Dwight Yoakam, Michael W. Smith, and Michael Harding. It is based on the bestselling book of the same name .