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...Man, are free to choose good or evil. The debate between Luther and Erasmus is one of the earliest of the Reformation over the issue of free will and predestination....

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...s what he sees as the most dangerous doctrines of Methodism using a dialectic format. The dialogue focuses especially on the Calvinistic doctrines of predestination and absolute depravity, and is remarkable for its extrapolation of Calvinist proof texts to refute the doctrines they allegedly prove. (Summary by Kirsten Ferreri)...

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...eiver 54 Who Was Responsible for Jesus’ Death? 60 David Prophesied Crucifixion Not Practiced in His Time 61 The Parable of the Prodigal Son and Predestination 62 Chapter 2: The Mission of St. Paul 67 Faith Overcoming Flesh 71 The Importance of One’s True Intent 77 Walking Our Path Out of the Flesh Daily 84 Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Redem...

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...128 93. Moving into the Spiritual Life 130 94. Existence 132 95. The Real Self 133 96. Way of Life 135 97. Free Will and Predestination 137 98. True Devotion 138 99. The Gaining of Soul Mastery 140 100. Spiritual Will 142 101. Intuition and Energy Force 143 102. Spirituality and Sexuality 145 103. Self-...

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...ial world, being at the same time, besides the divine creative endowment (predestination) one of the factors of evolution of the organic world. C... ...and needs. - The terrestrial being is quasi-totally subject to the divine predestination that means the duration of the material existence of each e... ... entity, while the extraterrestirial Being is liable not to be subject to predestination and therefore to avoid the monadic purification − the necess... ...reclude the acts of premature dematerialization in respect to the sacred predestination, and if these acts occur, they reflect in the last analysis... ...sn’t see unboundedness as the rational entity’s opposition to the divine predestination of embodying ; on a contrary, it considers that this act is... ... necessary act. 73 3.At the predestined ending (the only restrictive predestination in the divine project) of the material existence, the final... ...y in the case of anticipated final unboundedness in respect to the divine predestination (violent death), the soul preserves its manifest feature, be... ...y’s evolution, along with the creativity of the rational entity as divine predestination, the process (deemed a natural one) of recollection (as a s... ...duration of the material existence of the rational entity, the only divine predestination in the material reality is extended between the moment of t...

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...onditional Love Versus Eternal Punishment The Spiritual “Family” Karma And Predestination Mysticism 118 “Union” And “Communion” Mysticism Mysticism An... ...gs of nirvana and karma, and the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and of predestination, discussed in Chapters 2 and 3 on Buddhism and Christianity ... ...Western concept of fate which became embedded in the Christian doctrine of predestination (discussed at length in the next chapter). The biggest diffe... ...lly responsible—the Buddhist concept of karma, and the Christian belief in predestination. Death and resurrection In the present day there has been gr... ... Buddhism and Christianity begins to wane and even to disappear. KARMA AND PREDESTINATION There is one more major item in Christian tradition which I ... ...gely parallel to the concept of karma in Buddhism. That is the doctrine of predestination. A few centuries ago predestination was a burning issue in C... ...irmly ingrained in popular Christian belief and technical theology alike. “Predestination” is a word made from pre- (equals before) and destination. I... ...ife. In this simple form it looks like there is a major difference between predestination and karma, for predestination appears to be an active interv... ...e eternal nature of the Christ according to Christian belief. In regard to predestination, the relevance is that, for God, an individual’s life is a s...

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...e parent-poker lottery determine 99.9% of our fates. kismet, karma, luck, predestination—it isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are ne...

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...nd predestined course of events? If he did, out go the concepts of determinism and predestination, thus undermining (and upsetting) quite a few rel...

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...teachings of respected people may work their way into the belief systems. Predestination, some jihads, and ideas on when the soul enters or leaves t... ...o will go to heaven and who to hell? John Calvin‘s protestant doctrine of ‗predestination‘ developed a major belief system around this concept. If Go... ...hen there have been religions, like John Calvin‘s that accept the idea of predestination, that God knows when we are born what we will do every minu...

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...is there are suites of rooms as well as houses and streets that have their predestinations. Enriched with a magnificent service of plate, the “prima d...

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... G . Wells mental deadlocking occurs. The old theological deadlock between predestination and free will serves admirably as an example of the sort of ... ...STINA WILL AND PREDESTINA WILL AND PREDESTINA WILL AND PREDESTINA WILL AND PREDESTINATION TION TION TION TION And now let me return to a point raised ... ...ed to, it is quite possible to accept as true in their several planes both predestination and free will. (I use free will in 32 First and Last Things... ...elf-determinisn and not as it is defined by Pro- fessor William James, and predestination as equivalent to the conception of a universe rigid in time ... ...two Pragmatists, so far as I can understand them, do not hold this view of predestination at all; but as a provisional assump- tion it underlies most ... ...her to express a detachment than a view. For me as a person this theory of predestination has no prac- tical value. At the utmost it is an interesting... .... On that theory I find my life will work, and on a theory of mechani- cal predestination nothing works. I take the former theory therefore for my eve...

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...all and with Gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestination round Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin? 24 Rubaiyat of...

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...accompanied by such apparent good luck that he fancied he saw a species of predestination in this favor bestowed upon him by fate. He opened the windo...

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...n the nursery when a bauble is lost. He was awake to Mrs. Doria’s maternal predestinations, and guessed that Clare stood ready with the best form of f...

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...a hand to the third clause of the fourth part of a sermon on Free-Will and Predestination as the Hepzibah B.’s anchor rattled overboard. Tony, in his ...

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...s mental powers. I remember that, by one of those chances which seems like predestination, we got hold of a great Martyrology, in which the most curio...

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...ed it. And Arthur had not been bred to the grim reading of the doctrine of predestination which had condemned poor T am, even before he had embraced t...

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...intrude upon you as I don’t want to prevent anyone from believing in fate, predestination and such like. When I was back in Petersburg I made inquirie...

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...lexity and mental deadlocking occurs. The old theological deadlock between predestination and free-will serves admirably as an example of the sort of ...

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...sick and well. Not the Mahometans, who, prepossessed with the principle of predestination, value nothing of contagion, let it be in what it will, coul...