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Predestination and Free Will (1) - Foreword

Through this series of articles, we shall take a comprehensive approach to explore the teachings around this topic from the bible. In this study, we hope to expound on the doctrine of predestination, making it clear and easy to understand for all; and in turn, clear all doubts and misunderstandings about God. Thus allowing us to come to understand how wide and long and high and deep is the love of God towards sinners! And to be fully convinced that His sovereign will is completely trustworthy...

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Predestination and Free Will (2) – Man’s Free Will (Part 1)

God has planned our life so that everyone will come before Jesus, and the final thing we ought to do is to exercise our free will to accept Him as our saviour. This is what God deems as most precious and He has sacrificed all that He has in order to achieve this goal...

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Predestination and Free Will (3) – Man’s Free Will (Part 2)

God genuinely desires all to be saved and has employed all ways to lead everyone to Christ. Through the guidance in one’s life, through the preaching of the gospel by Christians to the whole world, and through the working of the Holy Spirit in their hearts, God exhausts all ways so that He can lead everyone back to Him...

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Predestination and Free Will (4) – Man’s Free Will (Part 3)

Did God harden Pharaoh’s heart and made him unwilling to release Moses and the Israelites even when he had intended to? And did He do it to proclaim His name to the world by making manifest His powers through Pharaoh...

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Predestination and Free Will (5) – God’s Predestination (Part 1) 

The greatest commandment of the Law is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,” and the purpose of the Law is to reveal sins and to direct sinners to Christ. Therefore, without a doubt, God’s predestination ought to be consistent with the Law He has given to man. Hence, those whom God has elected must be the ones that love God with all their hearts and with all their minds, to turn away from their sins and come to Jesus Christ...

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Predestination and Free Will (6) – God’s Predestination (Part 2) 

Be it a person, a tribe or a nation, no matter how evil or how much they hate God, they could never free themselves from the control of the almighty God. Even if they should go all out to oppose God and become His arch enemies, God’s plans and His work shall continue to prosper and not be upset or affected by their actions. Instead, their evil ploys would often be further used by God to accomplish His perfect will...

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Predestination and Free Will (7) – Romans Chapter 9 (Part 1)

To embrace this doctrine of predestination and accept that God chooses not to predestine some to heaven is already something difficult to swallow, yet if we take a closer look at Romans 9, a greater issue arises. This is something we have avoided all this while and dare not ask God – did God harden the heart of those predestined unto destruction, made them incapable of believing in Jesus and caused them to perish in hell...

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Predestination and Free Will (8) – Romans Chapter 9 (Part 2)

Can anyone understand the teachings found in Romans, Chapter 9? Have the mysteries hidden within it exceeded the limits of human comprehension? Should the writer declare that the mysteries hidden in Romans 9 are not only simple fundamental truths, but also truths most familiar to us – would this be too farfetched and hard to believe...

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Predestination and Free Will (9) – Some Important Truths

Though Calvinism is meant to help believers better understand the doctrine of Predestination, regrettably without anyone knowing, they have already introduced “another gospel.” They have added to the gospel an invisible hand of God, saying: “A person who has not been elected by God cannot be saved, and His will concerning His election is a mystery that cannot be known.” This has caused those who share the gospel to be hesitant in bringing people to Christ and those who heard the gospel to doubt the genuineness of God’s love for mankind...

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Predestination and Free Will (10) – Final Words

Moses became a spiritual giant not because he possessed extraordinary spiritual knowledge, rather, it was his great humility before God. Should a man set his heart to seek the Lord with a humble heart, it would far surpass having all of the most profound spiritual knowledge in the world...

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