Working Title: Divine Providence: God controls all
“God is the measure of all things”
Issues to discuss in essay: predestination; justification (behaving morally); and attaining eternal salvation (afterlife)
The theology of John Calvin – predestination – include background information
Quote John Calvin “All events whatsoever are governed by the secret counsel of God”
• Who is John Calvin? A religious scholar/Protestant Reformation 1533?
• John Calvin believed in God’s absolute power, God’s election, and corrupted nature of humans
• Did you study Romans 8:28-30 in class?
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to …show more content…
His Hamlet skeptical?
Question: Did Protestants/John Calvin believe ghosts were spirits that tempted people to sin? Do evil deeds?
Act I scene 5 lines 14 -31 – Ghost exhorts/insists/presses/ Hamlet to avenge his death by killing his murderer, Claudius.
GHOST My hour is almost come When I to sulfurous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself…
Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
To what I shall unfold…
So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear.
I am thy father’s spirit
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fearful porpentine.
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love…
Revenge his foul and most unnatural …show more content…
Notes: Hamlet recognizes that things are out of his control/belief in divine providence; he finally accepts his fate; He will die when God wants him to; spiritual salvation/redemption; God will save him if he believes
HAMLET Not a whit. We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.
Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be.
Comparison John Calvin- Perseverance of the Elect? Explain thoroughly with quotes to support
• “Once saved you will always be saved” –
• Salvation – God will save; walk faithfully with Jesus o John Calvin – once elected, you will be saved for all eternity
Biblical passage:
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal
“God is the measure of all things”
Issues to discuss in essay: predestination; justification (behaving morally); and attaining eternal salvation (afterlife)
The theology of John Calvin – predestination – include background information
Quote John Calvin “All events whatsoever are governed by the secret counsel of God”
• Who is John Calvin? A religious scholar/Protestant Reformation 1533?
• John Calvin believed in God’s absolute power, God’s election, and corrupted nature of humans
• Did you study Romans 8:28-30 in class?
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to …show more content…
His Hamlet skeptical?
Question: Did Protestants/John Calvin believe ghosts were spirits that tempted people to sin? Do evil deeds?
Act I scene 5 lines 14 -31 – Ghost exhorts/insists/presses/ Hamlet to avenge his death by killing his murderer, Claudius.
GHOST My hour is almost come When I to sulfurous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself…
Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
To what I shall unfold…
So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear.
I am thy father’s spirit
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fearful porpentine.
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love…
Revenge his foul and most unnatural …show more content…
Notes: Hamlet recognizes that things are out of his control/belief in divine providence; he finally accepts his fate; He will die when God wants him to; spiritual salvation/redemption; God will save him if he believes
HAMLET Not a whit. We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.
Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be.
Comparison John Calvin- Perseverance of the Elect? Explain thoroughly with quotes to support
• “Once saved you will always be saved” –
• Salvation – God will save; walk faithfully with Jesus o John Calvin – once elected, you will be saved for all eternity
Biblical passage:
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal