Theological determinism
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Theological determinism is the religious view that all events in the world were pre-ordained by God. The most prominent theologian espousing this view was John Calvin.
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Theological Determinism as held by Calvin leads inexorably to belief in Predestination on condition that our definition of /conception of /belief in God holds that this same God is ALL knowing of future, past and present.Thus,at our birth, even before, since the 'dawn of time,' He must know -must have known - who will be damned and who will be saved,and no amount of prayer, practical charity, Good Works, devotions etc. will make any difference to this. We labour to no avail, according to this belief, to try to perfect ourselves, to become 'worthy' of salvation by leading blameless lives, loving our neighbour and so on if we are not on His List so to speak. However, as no-one knows if they are among the Elect or not it behooves us to live exemplary lives in the Hope that we are. The Almighty is not a banker and we cannot presume to keep accounts with Him.
John p ruddy (talk) 17:48, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
