Predestination

Started by Martin Luther and the creation of Lutheranism reformation of Christianity spread across Europe, reformations like these spread across Europe. The protestant reformation spread throughout Europe with many different sects being created. After losing so many members, the Catholic church realized that they were doing something wrong and had their own reformation which has been deemed the “counter-reformation.” Ultimately the two religious revolutions because the protestant reformation…

regards himself as a Wesleyan Arminian, while the other brother called himself a Molinist. The first interview was more of a philosophical discussion about its application and derived meaning. My Arminian brother started with the derived meaning of predestination. If God has designed all the steps we are going to tred on, we don’t have any choices. It also means we don’t have any moral responsibilities. Furthermore, we don’t have to preach, to teach, and to pray. The Wesleyans emphasized prayer…

In Book 3 (lines 95-111), the question of “free will” is brought up. Milton’s discussion of free will raises the question of whether free will is something that an individual can choose or reject, or if in fact there is no choice of free will at all. It is possible that God is simply tangling the idea that free will even exists to men as a way for them to believe they have a choice over their own faiths, when it is possible that in actuality they do not. The question is why would God create…

History “The Lord has blessed us to maintain and Improve our meeting house over the years. For this we are grateful.” Very stern to stray away from using man made words that they say is not biblical. Primitive Baptist have a strong heritage and a very rich one at that. The saying above was given to me by Neil Phelan, Pastor of a Primitive Baptist. Mr.Phelan never went to seminary and much like most Primitive Baptist pastors learn from passed down knowledge from other elders and self studied.…

Sijena. The title of the book successfully summarizes Servetus’ life and yet also reflects the Goldstones’ style and confidence of the work. First off, Servetus’ “Fatal Heresy” refers to his rejection of the Holy Trinity as well as the concept of predestination which were both fundamental to Christianity. Next, the last line of the title, “One of the Rarest Books…

In 1675 in New England, the deadliest war in American history took place: The King Phillips War. For about ten years, colonists and Native people were at war over cultural differences, land, and religion. Mary Rowlandson was taken captive from Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1676; in her book she documents in detail her experience living with the Wampanoags and other Native American Tribes and how she made sense of and survived her captivity. Rowlandson relied very heavily on her faith in God and…

The Bible is the word of God, but the Bible can only nourish us “if it is understood and personally appropriated as God’s own word” in the flesh (Preface 1). Jesus Christ, the word of God incarnate came down to earth so that we not only could receive salvation, but so that all people can have a relationship with Him. This straightforward approach starts the book off on the right foot, and I enjoy how direct he is in this foreword. While this short introduction is good, it certainly is not a…

become such an important factor in the every day life of everyone, that we are just focused on wanting more and more. We are stuck on not having enough which then prohibits us from enjoying what we currently have,. Although we no longer believe in predestination, I feel like the concept of work has changed since Weber explained how the Calvinist rationalized religion. When someone asks us what our occupation is, we say “I am what I do for living”. For example, an individual who teaches at a…

Winning political independence from Europe, they aspired to a form of cultural independence. In the process, they dreamed of American literary and artistic life that would rival the greatest achievements in Europe. Americans believed that their “happy land” was destined to become the “seat of empire” and the “final stage” of civilization, with “glorious works of high invention and of wond'rous art.” The means of expression that this “independence” found was among other places in early American…

Free will is defined as the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion. Two texts that I feel deal heavily with free will are Paradise Lost and Oroonoko. In Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve experience the struggle for free will with God, as they go through trials and eventually end up being removed from the Garden of Eden. In Oroonoko, is about an African man who is taken from his home along with his wife, and is forced into slavery. He…