Category Archives: Sovereign Predestination or Man’s Free Will: The Great Doctrinal Debate

Predestination or Freewill Part 10: The Inescapable Conclusion

Romans 8:30, 31; I Peter 1:4,5; I Timothy 1:12        Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.        To an inheritance incorruptible, and … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 9: The Unfathomable Depth

Job 37:23; Job 37:5; Romans 11:33, 34        Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out.        Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.        O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 8: A Believer’s Certain Perseverance

Isaiah 41:10,13,14; 60:16; 63:1; John 6:37        Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness―For I … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 7: Can a True Believer Fall ever from Grace and Perish?

Hebrews 3:14          For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence unto the end. JAMES DURHAM (1622-1658): If believing depends on free-will, then our perseverance depends on it also. For if the man’s … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 6: Can Saving Grace be Resisted?

Acts 7:51; John 6:28, 29        Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost.        Then they said unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God. Jesus answered and said unto them, This is work … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 5: The Exact Moment of Regeneration

Ephesians 2:1, 4, 5        And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 4: God’s Foreknowledge. What is it?

I Peter 1:2; Romans 8:29        Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God.        For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. R. L. DABNEY (1820-1898): Does God’s foreknowledge of … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 3: The Case of Jacob & Esau

Genesis 25:23; Romans 9:11-13        Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels…and the elder shall serve the younger.        … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 2: The Crux of the Debate

Ephesians 1:4-7; Romans 8:29, 30        According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children … Continue reading

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Predestination or Freewill Part 1: The Great Debate Ground Rule

2 Timothy 2:24, 25        The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging … Continue reading

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