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Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. [1] Explanations of predestination often seek to address the paradox of free will, whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.
Jewish philosophy stresses that free will is a product of the intrinsic human soul, using the word neshama (from the Hebrew root n.sh.m. or .נ.ש.מ meaning "breath"), but the ability to make a free choice is through Yechida (from Hebrew word "yachid", יחיד, singular), the part of the soul that is united with God, [citation needed] the only being that is not hindered by or dependent on ...
Total depravity: [2] [6] [7] Humanity possesses free will in regard to "goods and possessions", but is sinful by nature and unable to contribute to its own salvation. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Total depravity : Humanity possesses freedom from necessity , but not "freedom from sin" unless enabled by " prevenient grace ".
Bray, John (December 1972), "Theodore Beza's Doctrine of Predestination", Church History, 41 (4), Cambridge University Press: 529, doi:10.2307/3163884, ISSN 0009-6407, JSTOR 3163884, S2CID 246999063 Christian Reformed Church (1987), Ecumenical Creeds & Confessions , Grand Rapids: Faith Alive Christian Resources, ISBN 978-0-930265-34-2 ...
The sovereignty (autonomy) of God, existing within a free agent, provides strong inner compulsions toward a course of action (calling), and the power of choice (election). The actions of a human are thus determined by a human acting on relatively strong or weak urges (both from God and the environment around them) and their own relative power ...
Augustine's view of free will and predestination would go on to have a profound impact on Christian theology. The notions of free will and predestination are heavily debated among Christians. Free will in the Christian sense is the ability to choose between good or evil.
Theological determinism is a form of predeterminism which states that all events that happen are pre-ordained, and/or predestined to happen, by one or more divine beings, or that they are destined to occur given the divine beings' omniscience.
Despite his own criticisms of contemporary Roman Catholicism, Erasmus argued that it needed reformation from within and that Luther had gone too far.He held that all humans possessed free will and that the doctrine of predestination conflicted with the teachings and thrust [1] of the Bible, which continually calls wayward humans to repent.