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To: RegulatorCountry
The contradiction is in the terms themselves. As Catholics, we understand predestination to be the following:

Predestination, taken in its widest meaning, is every Divine decree by which God, owing to His infallible prescience of the future, has appointed and ordained from eternity all events occurring in time, especially those which directly proceed from, or at least are influenced by, man's free will.

What you have been espousing is more akin to predetermination wherein God has fixed what will be... down to our very sins. That isn't the case since God wills that none sin and none be lost. Predestination is an understanding that God knows all times and all places and it all fits His plan in Divine Wisdom. Predetermination supposes that God wanted us to fall from grace as though He were writing the plot of the book and we are merely characters acting out (even in our sin) His will.

There is no free will in predetermination. There is in predestination.

124 posted on 03/20/2014 12:54:15 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: pgyanke

You mistake my taking note of one doctrine versus another for advocation. I do not advocate predestination in the manner of Calvinists although I understand the scriptural basis upon which the belief was based and accept Calvinists as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.


126 posted on 03/20/2014 1:17:57 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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