{"agent_id":"calvin","agent_name":"Jean Calvin","slug":"double-predestination","label":"Double predestination: does God eternally decree the reprobation of some as well as the election of others?","topic":"Double predestination","question":"Does God eternally decree the reprobation of some as well as the election of others?","position":"Yes. God from eternity determined what he would do with each person, and the decree that passes over some is as much his act as the decree that elects. Scripture says it and the alternative makes salvation turn on the creature.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"Yes.","n":[]},{"t":"God from eternity determined what he would do with each person, and the decree that passes over some is as much his act as the decree that elects.","n":[]},{"t":"Scripture says it and the alternative makes salvation turn on the creature.","n":[1,2,3,4,5]}]],"texts":"*Institutes* III.xxi–xxiv, especially the *decretum horribile* of III.xxiii.7; *De aeterna Dei praedestinatione* (1552), against Pighius and Georgius; the *Consensus Genevensis*. Reception: Bolsec's attack in Geneva in 1551; Arminius and the Remonstrant articles; Barth's reconstruction of election in *Church Dogmatics* II/2, which keeps the doctrine and moves its subject to Christ.","works":["*Institutes* III.xxi–xxiv, especially the *decretum horribile* of III.xxiii.7","*De aeterna Dei praedestinatione* (1552), against Pighius and Georgius","the *Consensus Genevensis*"],"reception":"Bolsec's attack in Geneva in 1551; Arminius and the Remonstrant articles; Barth's reconstruction of election in *Church Dogmatics* II/2, which keeps the doctrine and moves its subject to Christ.","status":"The doctrine most attached to his name, most attacked, and least central to the architecture of the work it appears in.","era":"1509-1564","discipline":"Theology","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol 2","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"That the general election of a people is not always effectual and permanent, a reason readily presents itself, because, when God covenants with them, he does not also give them the spirit of regeneration to enable them to persevere in the covenant to the end; but the external call, without the internal efficacy of grace, which would be sufficient for their preservation, is a kind of medium between the rejection of…","label":"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol 2"},{"n":2,"work":"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol 2","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"Whoever, therefore, endeavours to raise prejudices against the doctrine of predestination, openly reproaches God, as though something had inconsiderately escaped from him that is pernicious to the Church.","label":"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol 2"},{"n":3,"work":"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol 2","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"For when Paul says, that \"God hath concluded all under sin, that he might have mercy upon all,\" it must, at the same time, be added, that he is debtor to none; for no man \"hath first given to him,\" to entitle him to demand a recompense. XII. Another argument often urged to overthrow predestination is, that its establishment would destroy all solicitude and exertion for rectitude of conduct.","label":"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol 2"},{"n":4,"work":"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol 2","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"If it be replied, that the difference proceeds from their wickedness and perverseness, this will afford no satisfaction; because the minds of others would have been influenced by the same wickedness, but for the correction of Divine goodness.","label":"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol 2"},{"n":5,"work":"Commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"Paul speaks not here of our reconciliation with God, nor of the means, nor of the proximate causes of our sal vation; but he ascends higher, even to this, — why God, before the foundation of the world, chose only some and passed by others: and he declares, that God was led to make this dif ference by nothing else, but by his own good pleasure; for if any place is given to works, so much, he maintains, is taken…","label":"Commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"the-sensus-divinitatis","label":"The sensus divinitatis: is there a natural knowledge of God, and if so what does it accomplish?"},{"slug":"the-lord-s-supper","label":"The Lord's Supper: in what sense is Christ present, if the elements are not changed and his body is not brought down?"}]}