Predestination/Free will

Predestination is in the New Testament bible six times; as ‘pro-or-id-zo’, the Greek word for ‘before determined’. four of these times, God is speaking of the elect being preordained to eternal life. One other time, He is speaking of the means to the death of Christ and the one other time He mentions it is how wisdom is pre-ordained: opening up the conversation that the entirety of creation is before ordered into existence. Other instances of this inference are scattered throughout the Old Testament. ‘I have determined the end from the beginning’. ‘I have determined to gather the nations’. We have all heard of the common phrase; you were ‘bound and determined’ to do such and such. Determined comes from the Greek idea of predestination. Being bound comes from a Jewish concept of law. Together they make a decree which cannot be broken, an ancient Babylonian idea. The election of God exists and has concerning humanity been extended from before the world began when angels were elected to the creation of Adam. It continued with a record of the nation of Israel being elected and is why we know the phrase ‘Jew and Gentile’. They practiced the only one true religion while the rest of the entire world practiced false religions. Gentiles practiced one of many while Israel practiced one of one. Nor has it ended in the event of the cross; else it would have been recorded for us to see its end. On the contrary, there is real evidence that predestination is relevant and overarching when looking to the bible for answers. So we should see and do see a single true religion amidst many false religions. But we are not talking about a religion aside false religions. We are speaking of the religion of Christianity with fractions such as Israel had when their famous doctrine of free will covered the land and buried the small voices of Hanna, David, Samual, Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah and many others. That doctrine of free will was named ‘Know the Lord’ insinuating anyone could, and it was prevalent even to the day of the resurrection and it still continues in spite of the publication of predestination. The word predestination is a translation. It appears in its original word in each of these verses.

Acts 4:28  For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel ‘determined before’ to be done. 

Romans 8:29  For whom he did foreknow, he also did ‘predestinate’ to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 

Romans 8:30   Moreover whom he did ‘predestinate’, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 

1rst Corinthians 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ‘ordained before’ the world unto our glory: 

Ephesians 1:5  Having ‘predestinated’ us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 

Ephesians 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being ‘predestinated‘ according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 

As we see, there is no erasing predestination from the bible. It centers in on some of the most repeated texts of scriptures that we have. The problem is clear and right in front of us. If predestination is true, how does free will work?? The answer of course is that it doesn’t work, but because the world has free will as its core doctrine, the bible commits its doctrine of predestination to only those who are chosen to eternal life. All others cannot receive predestination, so instead of removing it from the bible, which is what they cannot do even though they hate predestination, they are forced to alter it from its administration power. It is weakened to accommodate free will. No sense looking to a champion of free will for some enlightening explanation, the least among them will say the same things, simply because free will dominates the natural mind and fifty years of bible study will not produce a better answer. Ecclesiastics 3:11 He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also, he hath ‘set the world in their heart‘, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.