7. Is Predestination Biblical?

Gathered Fragments

It is the fifth day of creation. Tomorrow, God will form man out of the dust of the ground. In preparation for this final work, the Creator sits down to consider the names of every human being who will be born on Earth. Before His throne are two scrolls. On one, an angelic scribe writes down the names of those who will be saved. On the other, the names of the eternally lost. Your name appears before the Almighty Judge. Although you are yet many years away from uttering a single breath, God dictates you a place in either heaven or hell.
Of course, such a scene is merely a fiction. Yet for many, this exercise in creative liberty holds within it a belief: that God has predestined each individual to eternal life or eternal death.
Is this doctrine based upon Scripture? Does God’s divine foreknowledge imply that our future is fixed? Didn’t God say: “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated”?
Join us in a study of Romans 8-11 as we explore whether man shapes his own destiny through the power of choice, or whether this power is merely a farce.

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