11 Election Predestination Free Will

2 Predetermined Outcome

3 Factors influencing our choices about which we had no choice Place of birth Time of birth Birth parents Siblings Genetic codes Place of birth Time of birth Birth parents Siblings Genetic codes

4 Determinism For everything that happens there are conditions such that, given those conditions, nothing else could happen. Oracle: Candy? Neo: Do you already know if I’m going to take it? Oracle: Wouldn’t be much of an oracle if I didn’t. Neo: But if you already know, how could I make a choice? Oracle: Because you didn’t come here to make the choice. You already made it. You’re here to try to understand why you made it.

5 Factors influencing our choices about which we had no choice Place of birth Time of birth Birth parents Siblings Genetic codes Place of birth Time of birth Birth parents Siblings Genetic codes Our flesh The world The devil God

6 Genesis 50:20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

7 Acts 2:22-23 "Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

8 Acts 2:22-23 "Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

9 Acts 2:22-23 This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. Sovereign Will Sovereign Will Moral Will Moral Will 

10 Acts 4:27-28 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together…to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. …to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. (ESV) Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together…to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. …to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. (ESV)

11 Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases. Proverbs 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. Philippians 2:12-13 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases. Proverbs 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. Philippians 2:12-13 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

12 Isaiah 46:9-10 Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. 1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Isaiah 46:9-10 Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. 1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.

13 Absolute Free Will “God can do anything with me that I give him permission to do.” Relative Free Will Under God’s ultimate and sovereign will I am free to make real, morally responsible decisions. “God can do anything with me that I give him permission to do.” Relative Free Will Under God’s ultimate and sovereign will I am free to make real, morally responsible decisions.

14 Westminster Confession God ordains whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin; nor is violence offered to the will of the creature; nor is the liberty, or contingency, of second causes taken away, but rather established. --Sec. 3, 1 God ordains whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin; nor is violence offered to the will of the creature; nor is the liberty, or contingency, of second causes taken away, but rather established. --Sec. 3, 1

15 “God’s Sovereign will...will certainly be fulfilled. It will not be frustrated by men, angels, or anything else. The sinner who tries to defy God’s plan may shake his fist to the heavens, but God will determine how many times he shakes it and whether that man will live to shake his fist tomorrow.” --Decision Making and the Will of God “God’s Sovereign will...will certainly be fulfilled. It will not be frustrated by men, angels, or anything else. The sinner who tries to defy God’s plan may shake his fist to the heavens, but God will determine how many times he shakes it and whether that man will live to shake his fist tomorrow.” --Decision Making and the Will of God

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17 1 Timothy 2:3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. Ephesians 1:4-5 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will-- 1 Timothy 2:3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. Ephesians 1:4-5 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will--

18 1 Peter 1:1-2 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God's elect…who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, Foreknowledge = God knew from eternity past who would believe in Jesus so those who would believe became his elect. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God's elect…who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, Foreknowledge = God knew from eternity past who would believe in Jesus so those who would believe became his elect.

19 “Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.” --Jonathan Edwards “Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.” --Jonathan Edwards

20 1 Timothy 2:3 God…wants all men to be saved Ephesians 1:4-5 he chose us…he predestined us 1 Timothy 2:3 God…wants all men to be saved Ephesians 1:4-5 he chose us…he predestined us

21 1 Timothy 2:3 God…wants all men to be saved Ephesians 1:4-5 he chose us…he predestined us 1 Timothy 2:3 God…wants all men to be saved Ephesians 1:4-5 he chose us…he predestined us Moral Will Moral Will Sovereign Will Sovereign Will Will of Desire Will of Desire Will of Decision Will of Decision

22 Romans 3:10-12 As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."

23 John 6:44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day."

24 John 6:44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day." Place of birth Time of birth Birth parents Siblings Genetic codes Place of birth Time of birth Birth parents Siblings Genetic codes Our flesh The world The devil God Our flesh The world The devil God

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