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To: P8riot

I confess that’s true. Reading an excerpt from “The Institutes of the Christian Religion” seems to confirm this, but perhaps only as it relates to salvation.


6 posted on 11/30/2007 8:22:03 AM PST by steve8714 (The last actor elected POTUS turned out OK.)
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To: steve8714
Some scripture teaching on predestination as it applies to salvation:

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us[...]" (Eph. 1:3-6, NASB)

"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified." (Rom. 8:28-30, NASB)

8 posted on 11/30/2007 8:47:41 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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