Calvinism

Question: How can you believe both in God’s foreknowledge and that man has the power of choice? If God knows ahead of time that Mr. A is going to do something, how can Mr. A decide for himself? Isn’t foreknowledge the same as predestination?

February 1, 2001

Question: How can you believe both in God’s foreknowledge and that man has the power of choice? If God knows ahead of time that Mr. A is going to do something, how can Mr. A decide for himself? Isn’t foreknowledge the same as predestination? Response: The biblical doctrine of foreknowledge...Read more

question and answer

Related Newsletters

What a Sovereign God Cannot Do - Hunt, Dave	Feb 2001
The Temporal Delusion (Part 1) - McMahon, T.A.	Sep 2010
The Strange Fire Conference: Spiritual Discernment According to Calvinism - McMahon, T.A.	Feb 2014
Who Can Understand the Gospel? - Hunt, Dave	Apr 2012
The Enigma of Calvinism - McMahon, T.A.	Dec 2015
Taste and See (Part 2) - Hunt, Dave	Sep 2004
Taste and See (Part 1) - Hunt, Dave	Aug 2004
Shameful Ironies! - Hunt, Dave	Feb 2006
Cry Out For Liberty - Hunt, Dave	Feb 2003
"Holy Father" - Hunt, Dave	Mar 1999

Questions and Responses

Question: Why does Revelation 17:8 (and maybe Revelation 13:8, depending on the translation used) refer to those “whose names were not written in the book of life from the creation of the world...”?

Question: Were Adam and Eve created perfect? If so, how could they sin? If they were created with a will that could choose to sin, how could they have been perfect?

Question: [TBC's] statement that John Calvin taught that Infant Baptism saves betrays a regrettable ignorance of Calvin’s beliefs....I request you publish this clarification of our Protestant, Reformed position.

Question: How can you believe both in God's foreknowledge and that man has the power of choice?

Question: I’ve been told by a Calvinist that if I’m not a Calvinist, then I’m an Arminian. As a Christian, do I have to be one or the other?

Question: I think it is stunning that...the most influential Christians of the past 2,000 years have been Augustinians...

Question: Some Calvinists have argued that 2 Peter 2:12 clearly shows that there are some who are "made to be taken and destroyed." How do you explain this verse?

Question: You have attacked the teachings of Calvin and Augustine. We’ll see which lasts the longest and stands the test of time—the writings of Augustine and Calvin and their contribution to orthodox theology or those of the writers and staff of TBC....

Question: I am deeply concerned about the increasing frequency of articles and comments in TBC that are harshly critical of Calvinism....

Related Radio

Does Romans Five Destroy Calvinism?	Aug 2007
Did God Choose Us...Or We Him?	Mar 2006
If You're in the Lord's Hands, Can You be Plucked Out?	Oct 2002
Does Romans 9 Teach Calvinism?	May 2002
Why Did God Give us a Free Will?	Feb 2006
What Are The 'Sure Mercies of David?'	May 2006
What Does It Mean to Be Born of Water?	Dec 2005
What Does It Mean to Be Born of Water?	Dec 2005
Is Foreknowledge the Same as Predestination?	Feb 2002
Has God Already Chosen Who's Going to Heaven?	May 2003

Related Updates

Ironside on Calvinism	Oct 2009
I don’t remember any emphasis on the sovereignty of God, election, foreknowledge, predestination or the work of the Spirit...	Feb 2007
What Love is This?	May 2003
Psychic Lectures	Jun 2005
Statement on Calvinism Draws Approval, Criticism	Jun 2012
Freedom and Accountability	Feb 2016
Calvinism: Mohler, Hankins Hold 'Conversation'	Dec 2013
An Amazing Book	Nov 2003
John the Baptist	Dec 2003
How the King James Bible Changed the Way We Speak	Feb 2011