RE: Why does God hate babies who have not sinned?
October 12, 2012 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2012 at 12:45 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(October 12, 2012 at 12:29 pm)Darkstar Wrote: ...
Wait...what does 'elect' mean in this context?
Basically, God created only a select number of humans that he would save. He never intended to save all of them (yet he created them all anyway) because not all of them supposedly would respond to his "calling."
It's the doctrine that comes from Calvinism which is often contrasted with Arminianism. Most protestants fall somewhere in-between the two.
It's a debate that will never end because the Bible is contradictory on the matter since it was written by different authors with different view points. You'll find verses that support election and anti-free will and others that say God died for everyone and we have free will. And both sides have to engage harmonization of the different verses in scripture to make it seem like there's one view point voiced in the bible.
Quote:Faith is not something you conjure up yourself. Faith itself is something given by God
God should give everyone faith then.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
