“ If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only they have any chance of being saved, then 'love' has no intelligible meaning when… Roger E. Olson
“ Faith is not a meritorious cause of election, but it is constantly attested as the sole condition of salvation. Faith merely receives the merit of atoning grace, instead of asserting its own merit. Go… Thomas C. Oden
“ The first verse that comes to mind that refutes all of Calvin’s points is “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Whoever means whoever. Not just some, not just the elect; that means t… Lisa Bedrick
“ SOSTRATUS: Observe then your injustice! You punish us who are but the slaves of Clotho's bidding, and reward these, who do but minister to another's beneficence. For it will never be said that it was… Lucian of Samosata
“ If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ What the fates have writ, men shall not erase . . . . How many times he [Lut] had uttered those words. But what exactly did they mean? That one’s fate was inalterably fixed? A man’s entire life? Was t… James Jennewein
“ A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ I think that both our lives and the potential directions our lives may go are predestined. By using our free will in making our life choices, we do nothing else but picking up one of many already pr… Stevan V. Nikolic
“ It's laughable, looking back, to see the processes I went through, pretending to make a reasoned decision. No choice is ever made on the basis of logic; the logic is fabricated around the impulse, the… John Burnside
“ The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockro… Clarice Lispector
“ A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course. Bruce Crown
“ There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines… Louis Menand
“ War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest. Toba Beta
