WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It claims that free will does not exist, and God has absolute control over a person’s actions. Hard theological determinism is similar in implication to hard determinism, although it does not invalidate compatibilist free will.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word “predestined” has both a broad and narrow meaning. In the narrow sense it refers to the election of all who will be saved (Romans 8:29-30; Ephesians 1:5, 11). In the broader sense predestine refers to all things, including God’s plan (1 Corinthians 2:7) and the crucifixion of Christ (Acts 2:23; 4:28).

Detailed explanation-3: -At its heart is the concept of predestination. Calvinists believe that, at the beginning of time, God selected a limited number of souls to grant salvation and there’s nothing any individual person can do during their mortal life to alter their eternal fate.

Detailed explanation-4: -This idea, pursued through Scripture with humanist rigor, leads Calvin to the conclusion that God not only choses some for salvation, he also “devotes” others to damnation. This is the doctrine of “double predestination”: the idea that God does not merely chose some for salvation, and omits to save the rest (as St.

Detailed explanation-5: -The doctrine of predestination teaches that everyone who is saved was chosen by God before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4; 2 Thess. 2:13). People might conclude that no one can know for sure whether he is saved and will go to heaven.