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So my wife Jeanette and I were talking about God the other day and the topic of God's Sovereignty came up. I was trying to explain the Augustinian view of God's sovereignty (Nothing happens outside of God's will and God predetermined everything that comes to pass) and my wife happened to teach me something new I never heard of before. Apparently there's a false Christian belief similar to the Augustinian view called determinism. She gives me a definition as that what it was and I stupidly said that's what Calvinist's believe.
Well I looked it up myself and found out that there were major differences. One determinists believe humans are not responsible for their actions whatsoever. Calvinists admit that mankind is responsible for their own actions.
I looked deeper and found out that apparently that Augustine, Cavlin and many other old great theologians believed in something called Theological Determinism. I tried reading further but, there weren't very many topics on the subject. My question I guess is, what is the difference between theological determinism and determinism? And if Calvinism goes into the belief of determinism how is that outside what the bible teaches about God's Sovereignty? In fact, I don't think there is even a single religion that says that God isn't Sovereign. If God is sovereign over all why would he not be sovereign over us? And don't say that God being sovereign over us makes God a puppet master because, that just isn't the case.
Well I looked it up myself and found out that there were major differences. One determinists believe humans are not responsible for their actions whatsoever. Calvinists admit that mankind is responsible for their own actions.
I looked deeper and found out that apparently that Augustine, Cavlin and many other old great theologians believed in something called Theological Determinism. I tried reading further but, there weren't very many topics on the subject. My question I guess is, what is the difference between theological determinism and determinism? And if Calvinism goes into the belief of determinism how is that outside what the bible teaches about God's Sovereignty? In fact, I don't think there is even a single religion that says that God isn't Sovereign. If God is sovereign over all why would he not be sovereign over us? And don't say that God being sovereign over us makes God a puppet master because, that just isn't the case.