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Predestination is a 2014 Australian science fiction action-thriller film [4] written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, and Noah Taylor, and is based on the 1959 short story " '—All You Zombies—' " by Robert A. Heinlein.
Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. [1] Explanations of predestination often seek to address the paradox of free will, whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.
Jan 9, 2015 · Predestination: Directed by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig. With Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Sommers. As his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975.
Feb 23, 2024 · Predestination is the idea that God, being omniscient and omnipotent, has predetermined the fate or destiny of individuals, including their salvation or damnation, before the foundation of the world. It's a topic that has widely disparate views, even among Christians.
Aug 9, 2024 · Predestination, in Christianity, the doctrine that God has eternally chosen those whom he intends to save. It is distinct from both determinism and fatalism but does hold that salvation is entirely due to the eternal decree of God.
Jan 4, 2022 · So, predestination is God determining certain things to occur ahead of time. What did God determine ahead of time? According to Romans 8:29-30, God predetermined that certain individuals would be conformed to the likeness of His Son, be called, justified, and glorified.
Jan 8, 2024 · Predestination means that God predetermined the destiny of certain individuals for salvation (election) and others for condemnation (reprobation). Election is positive predestination: God sovereignly and graciously chose to save individual sinners.
The Reformation. Predestination was the common Augustinian heritage of the Western Church at the time of the Reformation. But it was again brought into controversy as Martin Luther, and then others like John Calvin, made use of the doctrine in ways that challenged the Catholic Church’s theology of salvation.
By a brief reconnaissance of Reformed confessions and by a brief roll call of the theologians of the Reformed faith, we can readily see that double predestination has been consistently maintained along the lines of a positive-negative schema.
In this series, Dr. R.C. Sproul discusses key Scriptural texts that deal with the doctrine of predestination and addresses common objections to it. Exploring wh.