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Interview: Paul Marston – Why did you write “God’s Strategy in Human History”?

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 …

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God’s Foreknowledge – How much does God know about the future?

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 …

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Predestination : what’s all the fuss about?

[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 …

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What does ‘ predestination ’ mean?

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 …

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