David Yamamoto
Mrs. Weismen
Language Arts
period 3
Predestination is defined as the doctrine that God decided at the beginning of time who would go to Heaven after death and who would not. This is a very debateable in the world as Christians we sometimes might wonder, if God knows of everything that has and will come, then does that mean that we are destined to heaven or hell? on earth is already predestined to happen? God wrote in the bible in Romans 8:30 “Those whom He predestined He also called; and those whom He called He also justified; and those whom He justified He also glorified.” There is a story in the bible ,Romans 9:15 -15, that states how God predestined a persons fate. "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.” this is proof that God has already predestined people and they do not have the free will to choose to go to heaven or hell.
This poses the question that we have free will. Free will is defined as doing something or making a choice willingly rather than by compulsion. Genesis 6:6 shows strong evidence that God did not predestine everything. "The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him to his heart." We were given a choice, and we chose to sin. We were given a choice so important that it made that it could make out Lord God grieve. This by its self contradicts Romans 8:30 which states that certain people are predestined. God warned Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of good and evil. God gave them a choice to either commit sin or not to. He did not predestine them to eat from the tree of good and evil and introduce sin into the world. If this was predestined then why did God grieve over the fall of man? Can predestination really exist if our lord will grieve over mistakes that we make.
