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He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." John 3:16—"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." [3]
So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. (NIV, 1984)
In The New Trial of Socrates (2012), an international panel of ten judges held a mock re-trial of Socrates to resolve the matter of the charges levelled against him by Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon, that: "Socrates is a doer of evil and corrupter of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state, and he believes in other new ...
The five points assert that God saves every person upon whom he has mercy, and that his efforts are not frustrated by the unrighteousness or inability of humans. They are occasionally known by the acrostic TULIP: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. [1]
Predestination in Catholicism is the Catholic Church's teachings on predestination and Catholic saints' views on it. The church believes that predestination is not based on anything external to God - for example, the grace of baptism is not merited but given freely to those who receive baptism - since predestination was formulated before the foundation of the world.
Frank A. James says that he rejected it, preferring a view called "single predestination" where God elects some to salvation, but does not in any way predestine to reprobation. [13] Cornelis Venema , on the other hand, argues that "Bullinger did not consistently articulate a doctrine of single predestination," and defended double predestination ...
He refuted it by saying children should not be baptized until they can personally believe in Christ. [32] Even by 400, there was no consensus regarding why infants should be baptized. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] The Pelagians taught infant baptism merely allowed children to enter the kingdom of God (viewed as different than heaven ), so that unbaptized ...
Latter-day Saints do not believe that children come into the world with any guilt, [22] because Jesus Christ atoned for "original guilt"; [23] [24] therefore no one is condemned by original sin [25] and people are responsible only for their own sins once they have reached the age of accountability. [26]