GR translation: there is a new election, a new preterition abroad

[David Morris]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Election and Preterition are Calvinist terms describing who is saved and lost.
> [...] Predestination indicates that God determines (has determined, will determine, does determine) all of this without reference to any human action...
> [...]
> The common element, then, is a binary organizing principle of people's fates (or in even broader terms, an organizing principle of any kind of object, such as Maxwell's Demon)

Calvanist predestination was conceived precisely to remove human
action from responsibility for an individuals ultimate fate.
Predestination logic is an extension of Luther's teaching that
salvation was via "grace," a pure gift from God, not earned in any way
by man.  Calvinism equates the decision to believe/accept this grace
with human action, thus predestination functions to make this act of
believing involuntary.  Calvinism essentially codifies a completely
fated world, set in motion like a machine from before the advent of
time.

David Morris