Predestination and judgment

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Often appears with: scriptural authority · providence and divine governance · natural law and higher law · man’s responsibility · god’s decree and law · forms of government

Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1) · reverence (1)

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“Rather, while we comprehend not how God intends that to be done, the doing of which he forbids, let us remember our imbecility, and at the same time consider, that the light which he inhabits, is justly called inaccessible, because it is overspread with impenetrable darkness.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) primary

Jean Calvin · 1541 (initial publication of the Institutes; this record is for a later 1559/French-collated edition, but the work’s composition spans Calvin’s revisions after earlier versions)
Book I. On The Knowledge Of God The Creator. > Chapter XVIII. God Uses The Agency Of The Impious, And Inclines Their (4/5)

He warns opponents against disputing God’s authority, answers objections about God’s decrees versus his laws, and uses biblical cases (Job, Eli’s sons, Herod and Pilate) to defend divine unity.

and works of men, so that it not only exerts its power in the elect, who are influenced by the Holy Spirit, but also compels the compliance of the reprobate. III. But, as I have hitherto only recited such things as are delivered without any obscurity or ambiguity in the Scriptures, let persons who hesitate not to brand with ignominy those oracles of heaven, beware what kind of opposition they make. For, if they pret…