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What was the starting point for writing “God’s Strategy in Human History”? Christians disagree about many different kinds of things: 1. Things concerning church life: eg should women be pastors/bishops 2. Issues about family life: eg should divorcees ever remarry 3. The purely symbolic: eg should we baptise babies 4. Issues about eschatology: eg will […]

Is the future completely mapped out already? Is our destiny fixed, or can it be changed? Do we have freewill? These questions really boil down to a single theological point: how much does God know about the future?   5 Views on God’s Foreknowledge This article is a brief rundown of Roger’s Forster’s synopsis of

[This discussion follows on from the previous blog article: ‘Predestination: what does it mean?’, a brief word study outlining the New Testament’s teaching about predestination]. Controversy It is a great shame that the doctrine of predestination has come to be seen as a controversial and difficult to understand theological topic. When properly understood it is

Predestination Predestination has become a controversial theological topic, despite the fact that the term is relatively rare in the New Testament. The controversy usually revolves around questions such as: what exactly is predestined? Does predestination mean that everything that happens in the universe is pre-determined, decided and controlled by God? Did God deliberately select and