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Questions about divine providence have preoccupied Christians for generations. Are people elected to salvation? For whom did Jesus die? This book introduces readers to four prevailing views on divine providence, with particular attention to the question of who Jesus died to save (the extent of the atonement) and if or how God determines who will be saved (predestination). But this book does not...

second causes and especially with the human will” while simultaneously leaving the “contingency and liberty of the will … unimpaired.”71 Scripture presumes that determinism and genuine human freedom are compatible, in other words, even though it does not explain the mechanics of how this is possible, and “the method of this reconciliation cannot in this life be clearly and perfectly explained by us.”72 As Turretin summarizes the matter, when we eschew eisegesis and begin with the data of Scripture,
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