Classes

Harmonizing God's Sovereignty and Man's Free Will

A four-week series at First Redeemer Church on Wednesday evenings. 
April 10th through May 1st, 2019
6:30 to 8:00 PM
Modular   

We will explore and critique six different views:

  1. Open Theism -- God ordains the ends, but not all the means, since God cannot know future human free choices
  2. Arminianism -- God ordains the ends, but not all the means, by knowing what all human free choices will be
  3. Molinism -- God ordains the ends and means by knowing logically prior to creation what all human free choices would be under any circumstances
  4. Thomism – God ordains the ends and means, being the efficient cause of all human choices, but not the formal cause
  5. Calvinism -- God ordains the ends and means by causally determining all human choices, though the choices are voluntary
  6. Theological Fatalism – God ordains the ends and means by knowing all future human choices, making all choices necessary and inevitable