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Election Flashcards

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Quote from St Aug about original sin

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every person is ‘seminally present in the loans of adam’

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Definition of double predestination

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God chooses those who will go to heaven and those that will be go hell

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What is the church teaching?

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God elects some to heaven and people send themselves to hell

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Bible quote about predestination

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‘For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son’ Romans 8:29

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Why does Calvin believe in predestination

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God must have control as he is all powerful

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What are the arguments against limited election?

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1) Doesn’t coincide with a loving God (Hick)
2) Inconsistencies in the Bible like the Parable of the Sheep and the goats
3) Why would people strive to live a moral life?

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What does Karl Barth say about the trinity?

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‘The doctrine of the trinity fundamentally distinguishes the Christian faith from any other religious tradition’

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How can Redemptoris Missio link to unlimited election?

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Jesus is offered to everyone as it talks of the duty of missionary

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What does Karl Barth say of Christ being the way into heaven?

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‘no condemnation, literally none, for those who are in Christ Jesus’

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Bible quote to support unlimited election

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John 14:6- ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me’

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What does Aquinas add to unlimited election?

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He said that an act of faith was necessary for salvation

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What are the criticisms of unlimited election?

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1) If Jesus is the universal elector, how comes not everyone knows him?
2) Does this take away from the omnipotence of God?

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What is the emphasis on for universalism?

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the omni-benevolence of God

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What teaching is universalism based on?

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the teaching of compassion

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Who could possibly support universalism?

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Joseph Fletcher creator of situation ethics who narrowed down Jesus’ teachings to love

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Criticisms of universalism?

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1) what would be the point of living a moral life now

2) Some would find it patronizing to suggest everyone is headed to a Christian heaven

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What are the consequences of the nature of God if double predestination is agreed upon?

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He cannot be benevolent as this means he condemns some who would go on to act morally good to hell before they were born. Moreover, innocent babies that die may be condemned to hell.

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Quote from Matthew 25

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‘I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me…’
‘Whatever you did for the least of these brothers and sisters you did for me’
‘I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat…’

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What is Jesus setting out in Matthew 25?

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A social and moral agenda and that you will be judged for how you behave

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