Predestination

July 28 2005
So a lot of talk about predestination has come up in my circles lately. I had yet to truly form an opinion, but I realized mine this morning. God is perfect, and God is holy. Sin is something that he cannot do and cannot cause. However, to ignore God and to not be a Christian is a sin. Predestination says that God predestins certain people to become Christians. This would imply that he predestined the rest to not be Christians therefore making them sin, which he does not, and cannot do. That's my opinion on the matter.

In other news, Amy's group leader in New York, is Justin Lett. He is at a church in Cincinatti (sp) and is married with a 4-month-old.

Sam-Graham Jinn (Graham Wells)

July 28 2005
No way on Justin. Holy cow. The only thing about your predestination line of thinking is that there are several places in Scripture that specifically say He DID in fact choose. It isn't a doctrine I'm terribly fond of, but Biblically it is very hard to refute.

Sam-Graham Jinn (Graham Wells)

July 28 2005
Gah, now I'm stuck on the Justin Lett thing. No freaking fair.

Amy

August 02 2005
The Bible says that those that God forknew he also predestined. What that means to me is that God knew ahead of time who would accept Him and who would not, and those who will He predestines. We have a free will to choose, but God knows ahead of time what we will choose.