OzSpen
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I have never understood the single predestinarian view - not hyper Calvinism - that God predestined the elect but passed over the non elect. I don't get it. This is no different IMO to the hyper view, that God predestined the reprobate ( I.e God is the author of sin). It seems to me to just be a work around which never works. If it did work then there would not have been the debate we are in for the last 1500 years.
John Calvin himself taught double predestination (the saved and damned are predestined to their eternal destiny). This is what he wrote and taught:
The predestination by which God adopts some to the hope of life, and adjudges others to eternal death, no man who would be thought pious ventures simply to deny…. By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death (Institutes of the Christian Religion 3.21.5, emphasis added).
Does that make Calvin a hyper-Calvinist?
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