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Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty & Human Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

If God is in control, are people really free? This question has bothered Christians for centuries. And answers have covered a wide spectrum. Today Christians still disagree. Those who emphasize human freedom view it as a reflection of God’s self-limited power. Others look at human freedom in the order of God’s overall control. David and Randall Basinger have put this age-old question to four...

to me I will never drive away” (Jn 6:37). There is another interesting passage in Acts which states that “all who were appointed [by God] for eternal life believed” (Acts 13:48). Yet within a few verses of this text Luke says, “They spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed” (Acts 14:1). So the Bible teaches both divine sovereignty and human responsibility, often in the same passage. Evangelical Christians have attempted to explain the relationship between
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