Posts Tagged with ‘predestination’

Why did God create evil?

Just as God did not “create” good, He did not “create” evil. God is the definition of good and the rejection of God or His personality is by definition evil. While it is a concept and not a created thing, evil is real and does exist. Evil exists as a result of the ability to accept or reject God. Read Full Answer.

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What does it mean when we say that man is depraved and what is regeneration? Are we saved because we choose God, or are we saved because God first chose us and caused us to believe in Him?

The total depravity of man refers to the inability of an unbeliever to please God or come to faith in Christ unless he is first given a new heart. Regeneration is the process where God shows his love for sinners by changing our sinful heart and drawing us to Himself (John 6:44). Read Full Answer.

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How do predestination and free will work together without contradicting each other in the topic of salvation?

The bible does not teach that man has complete free will. It does say that man makes choices, and that man is responsible for the choices he makes. It does not however, teach or imply that man’s choice is totally independent of what God has already predestined for him to choose. In this sense, Read Full Answer.

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Please comment on predestination. Do we become a Christian only because we are born as a Christian or because it is God who has predestined us as His children?

A Christian is someone who has made a decision to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. By this, we can say that nobody is born a Christian. However, before we were born, God has already determined whether we will choose Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour. He has predestined those of us Read Full Answer.

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If God has control over everything and has caused evil to exist, does that not make God evil?

Proverbs 16:4 – The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

But if God has purposed that there will be suffering and evil in this world, doesn’t that mean that God is evil? No. God is good even if he wills that his creation do wicked things and suffer. Read Full Answer.

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If God knows everything, why did He make us?

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. It is for this purpose that we were created. God made man in His image (Gen 1:26-27) to reflect His glory through the expression of His attributes. “If God had not created the world, there would have been no Paul to do the Read Full Answer.

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Why are some people never saved?

John 3:16-18  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not Read Full Answer.

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Does God see the future?

Yes. God knows everything that happens in the future.

In this sense, we see that God not only sees everything that everyone does, but He knows what they would do from the very beginning of time — even before they came into existence. As the Read Full Answer.

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