Predetermined for Good or Evil?

Predetermined for Good or Evil?

 

Jacob and Esau; Moses and Pharaoh, JESUS and Barabbas, Paul and Bar-Jesus. If you are not familiar with all of these relationships then study and meditate on them!

 

So the question is, are some born to serve GOD and be saved and are some born to serve GOD and be condemned? The answer is yes and no, depending on how you understand the scriptures.

 

There has been controversy and fighting over selective predestination and inclusive predestination from the time of Israel’s release from Egypt and their entering into the Promised Land.

 

Selective predestination is that some are selected in the womb to serve GOD and some are selected in the womb to oppose GOD. There are two thoughts on this; that everyone is preselected by GOD for salvation or condemnation while they are in the womb and that is it. The other is that some specific people are preselected in the womb by GOD for salvation and some for condemnation but the bulk of people are up for grabs.

 

Inclusive predestination is that everyone is predetermined in the womb for condemnation and must be saved; some will be and some will not be; the choice is theirs if they hear about JESUS.

 

I believe that because of Adam’s disobedience all are born into condemnation. That all who believe that JESUS is the only means of salvation and repent of being a sinner will be saved. That all who reject GOD’s gift of salvation through JESUS will be condemned. That all who never hear about JESUS will be judged according to how they lived their life in their society and time in history.