Free Will and Determinism

Question 1

Give a quote from St Augustine on religious predestination.

Answer 1

“Give me the grace to do as you command, and command me to do what you will.”

Question 2

Give biblical support for predestination.

Answer 2

“For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.” (Romans 8:29)

Question 3

Give a quote from Augustine on the creation of evil.

Answer 3

“For God, the author of natures, not of vices, created man upright.”

Question 4

Give Biblical support for election.

Answer 4

“Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?” (Romans 9:21)

Question 5

Give a quote from Calvin on predestination.

Answer 5

“All are not created on equal terms, some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation.”

Question 6

Give a quote from Calvin on God’s foreknowledge.

Answer 6

“The decree, I admit, is dreadful; and yet it is impossible to deny that God foreknew what the end of man was to be before he made him.”

Question 7

Give a quote from John Locke on hard determinism.

Answer 7

“Being locked fast in, it is evident he is not at liberty not to stay, he has not freedon to be gone.”