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Predestination

• ¶ 3Absolute predestination holds that a person’s eternal destiny—to salvation or damnation—is predetermined before his birth. It is already written down in God’s…
• ¶ 1The Doctrine of predestination explains the fact that people have different fortunes, moral endowments, are born into different circumstances, and respond differently to religion.
• ¶ 6How is predestination reconciled with human free will?

Predestination 예정론

Predestination and Christology

• ¶ 1Our topic today is predestination. The most important aspect of the Principle is to realize the meaning of responsibility. Responsibility is the absolute essence of Principle…
• ¶ 52The whole chapter on Predestination is about man’s responsibility and its importance.
• ¶ 5If you accept the word predestination in its conventional meaning, then God is omnipotent and created everything in His image and perfection. In addition, everything that…

The Predestination of Human Beings

• ¶ 10Let us next examine God’s predestination of central figures in the providence of restoration.

The Predestination of the Way in Which God’s Will Is Fulfilled

The Predestination of God’s Will

• ¶ 1Before discussing the predestination of God’s Will, let us first examine what is being willed.
• ¶ 9It follows that God’s predestination of His Will – that the purpose of creation one day be fulfilled – must also be absolute, as it is written…
• ¶ 5…such events as the destruction of the cosmos. If such evils were the inevitable result of God’s predestination, then God could not be the Author…

Chapter 6 Predestination Christology

• ¶ 2God’s predestination in terms of His Will is absolute according to the Principle of Predestination, and the core of the teaching is that when people…
• ¶ 19The principle of predestination also applies to the Father. The same rule applies to us as well.
• ¶ 1Father strictly applies the principle of predestination

Elucidation of Biblical Verses Which Support the Doctrine of Absolute Predestination

• ¶ 15People such as John Calvin have propounded the doctrine of absolute and complete predestination, which is widely believed even in our present day. They have held…
• ¶ 1So far, we have analyzed the various issues concerning predestination. Next, we shall look again at those biblical verses which seem to suggest that the outcome…
• ¶ 4…justified and then glorified. God’s predestination concerning an individual’s glorification is thus contingent upon the completion of his portion of responsibility. Because the biblical…

Where Will Christ Return?

• ¶ 1…born on the earth, he will certainly be born among a people who are chosen by God in accordance with His predestination. Where is the place…

Omniscient and Omnipresent

• ¶ 1…what we do, but He also sympathizes with our difficulties. He is our companion in every situation; we are never alone. See also Chapter 11: Predestination.

The Number of Generations or Years in the Periods of the Age of the Providence to Lay the Foundation for Restoration

• ¶ 2Why has the providence of restoration been prolonged? This question can only be answered with an understanding of the principle of predestination. According to this principle…

Individual Responsibility

• ¶ 9Many religions hold that an individual’s destiny is at least partly determined by factors beyond his or her control: God’s predestination, past karma, or…
• ¶ 55…woe or neutral feeling is experienced, all that is due to the creation [predestination] of a Supreme Deity… Then I say to them, “So then…
• ¶ 44…was to make them worthy to be the lords of creation by having them take after His creative nature. (Exposition of the Divine Principle, Predestination 4)

Parallel Providential Periods

• ¶ 5…God has predestined the absolute and eventual fulfillment of His Will (cf. Predestination 1), He chooses another person to carry on the mission and opens another…

The Meaning of the Last Days

• ¶ 10… hence, the goal of the providence of restoration is unchanging and shall be fulfilled without fail (cf. Predestination 1). Therefore, even though the providence of restoration…

Satan’s Activities in Human Society

• ¶ 8…at the creation. Because God works His providence based on this principle, the history of the providence of restoration has been repeatedly prolonged (cf. Predestination 2).

God and the World

• ¶ 5Predestination is too rigid, too mechanical, to describe God's care for His creation. As Jesus taught, God relates to us as a father and a…
• ¶ 125ReferencesDouble predestination: some men are predestined to heaven and all the rest to damnation. 2 For additional treatments of miracles, see Emil Brunner, Dogmatics, Vol. II…
• ¶ 25The bad side of predestination is that it makes life deterministic and fatalistic. In reaction to Calvinism, many theologians since Arminius have stressed human freedom. It…

Conversion and New Life

• ¶ 15Calvin's attitude was forcefully expressed in his doctrine of predestination. Salvation is God's act and His only; man has nothing to do or say…
• ¶ 16…the religious basis for Calvin's idea. He felt that predestination was a logical deduction from faith in God, based on our assurance of divine concern…

Portion of Responsibility 책임분담

Dispensational Time-Identity

Call and Mission

• ¶ 15…Only when the person completes his responsibility after being called by God is he justified and then glorified. (Exposition of the Divine Principle, Predestination 3-4)