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After wrestling with the subject of predestination for a while, I came to reject both the calvinistic and armenianist position based on a personal revelation that was very profound:
God doesn't "choose" the same way we do in the temporal world. By our standards, God cannot choose anything. Why? Because to say that God "chose" something would imply that there was a time in the eternal world in which God had not yet chose. Think about that. If God "always was", and knows all, then at what point does He choose? If He already knows who He will choose at a certain point, then He ALREADY chose. And if He always existed, then He never chose!
Rather, God just IS. And the elect just are, too. We did not always exist...but we always existed in His knowledge. He always knew us. We are predestined due to eternal knowledge. Therefore, our election just "is" the same way God is. Everything God does has in effect already happened and is an expression of Himself. And the elect are the image of His person. The elect are the elect necessarily because Jesus (who IS) is the firstborn among many brethren. Our names ALWAYS existed. There is no more need to explain election then there is to explain God. It just is. And the temporal world is a reflection of how things ARE.
Concluded: calvinists and armenians are both wrong and my position is correct.
God doesn't "choose" the same way we do in the temporal world. By our standards, God cannot choose anything. Why? Because to say that God "chose" something would imply that there was a time in the eternal world in which God had not yet chose. Think about that. If God "always was", and knows all, then at what point does He choose? If He already knows who He will choose at a certain point, then He ALREADY chose. And if He always existed, then He never chose!
Rather, God just IS. And the elect just are, too. We did not always exist...but we always existed in His knowledge. He always knew us. We are predestined due to eternal knowledge. Therefore, our election just "is" the same way God is. Everything God does has in effect already happened and is an expression of Himself. And the elect are the image of His person. The elect are the elect necessarily because Jesus (who IS) is the firstborn among many brethren. Our names ALWAYS existed. There is no more need to explain election then there is to explain God. It just is. And the temporal world is a reflection of how things ARE.
Concluded: calvinists and armenians are both wrong and my position is correct.
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