The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum double predestination

So Troy, I find your "way out" to be a bit unsatisfactory. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img] This is why. ALL that God foreordains from eternity can be said to be ultimately and primarily for His glory. Every particle of matter and the path which it takes is included in God's decree. In His decree, those objects which are predestinated to eternal life are chosen for a specific purpose; i.e., to be united with Christ, justified in His blood, adopted as sons, sanctified in the Spirit, vindicated at the Judgment, glorified in body and soul and made citizens of the New Heaven and New Earth forever. Granting that God is not the Author of Sin and that those whom He reprobates rather than elects to salvation are damned according to justice and their own willful sin, must we not also conclude that God's original intention included "purpose" in His "passing by" the reprobate? In short, there can be no less of a definite decree to reprobate sinners as there is to elect some. For ALL things are foreordained for a general as well as a particular purpose and end. And we know that the "end" of the reprobate is eternal punishment AND for God's glory.

To put it in its most simple terms... ALL men are chosen; some for glory and others for damnation. But no human being is, nor can be, outside of God's foreordination, foreknowledge, or predestination for all have been created for a specific and infallible purpose.