Sunday, April 14: Doctrine of Grace 2: Issues with Predestination

That's a bit of a tongue-in-cheek title. I do have issues with certain formulations of predestination, but we in class today we focused on a few of the more thorny areas of predestinarian thought, namely, limited atonement and free will.

I thought it was a great discussion. We certainly didn't resolve any of the deep paradoxes, but I felt we were able to approach these topics in a way that pointed out some of the more problematic interpretations while affirming the earnest efforts among some to deal with the truly difficult aspects of (read: mystery) of predestination. What's more, we were able to come to a place where we both affirmed the biblical and theological necessity of predestination and realized that the rational, human logic of predestination breaks into a million brilliant, resplendent pieces on the shoals of God's mysterious and transcendent love in Christ.

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