THE REFORMED DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATIONLoraine Boettner
Category: Theology
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This book explains clearly that God is 100% sovereign and accomplishes what He purposed before the world was made. People will allow God to be sovereign in everything but the affairs of man, especially in salvation. This book refutes point by point the arguments against the absolute sovereignty of God. Any Christian should be required to read this book before entering into debate concerning God's dealings with sinful mankind. Boettner sets out explaining the doctrine and then in section III he takes on the obvious objections to the doctrine.
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So where does this place you on the lapsarspecrum? R U Supra, or Infralapsarianist?
Regds
Dav0
Dav0, though I am not a keen student of the subject, nor a major stakeholder in the debate, I would lean strongly in the supralapsarian direction.
In looking into this, I have come across a very compelling article that puts an alternative viewpoint.
According to this, the early church for the first 4 centuries believed in freewill, including people like Clement and Ignatius, who knew the apostles. The doctrine of 'helplessness' was only taught by Gnostics, who were routinely refuted. It was only when Augustine changed his own mind on the subject and expelled his opponents from the church that it became taught in the mainstream church.
There may be more to this than meets the eye, but I find it an interesting read.
http://openairoutreach.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/did-augustine-corrupt-the-church-with-gnostic-doctrine/
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