The only two chapters in which the word predestinate or predestinated is found is Romans 8:29-30, and Ephesians 1:5 and 11. You will note that there is no reference in these four verses to either heaven or hell but to Christ-likeness. Predestination means that someday all the redeemed shall become just like the Lord Jesus.
Nowhere are we told in scripture that God predestined one man to be saved and another to be lost. Men are to be saved or lost eternally because of their attitude towards the Lord Jesus Christ.
D.L. Moody used to put it very simply: the elect are the 'whosoever wills' the non-elect the 'whosoever wont's'.
This is exactly what scripture teaches. The invitation is to all, and those who accept it are the elect.
(Ironside on Calvinism)
Nowhere are we told in scripture that God predestined one man to be saved and another to be lost. Men are to be saved or lost eternally because of their attitude towards the Lord Jesus Christ.
D.L. Moody used to put it very simply: the elect are the 'whosoever wills' the non-elect the 'whosoever wont's'.
This is exactly what scripture teaches. The invitation is to all, and those who accept it are the elect.
(Ironside on Calvinism)
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