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6 days ago · The main schools of Islamic theology include the extant Mu'tazili, Ash'ari, Maturidi, and Athari schools; the extinct ones include the Qadari, Jahmi, Murji', and Batini schools. The main schism between Sunni, Shia, and Khariji branches of Islam was initially more political than theological, but theological differences have developed over time ...
Jun 29, 2024 · Fate, in Greek and Roman mythology, any of three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person’s life and his allotment of misery and suffering. Homer speaks of Fate ( moira) in the singular as an impersonal power and sometimes makes its functions interchangeable with those of the Olympian gods.
Jun 27, 2024 · Predestination — If all human behavior is controlled by God, then we are nothing more than robots, walking through a life that was laid out in detail for us before we were even born.
Jun 30, 2024 · "Predestination" opens with a bomb defusal gone wrong. The year is March 1975; a man wearing a coat and a hat is shown mid-mission, attempting to defuse a bomb before being caught in a gunfight.
Jun 22, 2024 · David J. Engelsma (Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel): "The proof of the Reformed position is evident to all. The apostle Paul was an avowed, ardent predestinarian, holding double predestination—election and reprobation.
Jul 8, 2024 · But Ephesians 1 offers a chance to help our hearers understand predestination as one of the markers of God’s amazing grace to us in Jesus Christ. In verse 4 Paul tells Ephesus’ Christians, God “chose [ exelexato ] us [ hemas ] in him before the creation [ kataboles ] of the world [ kosmou ] to be holy [ hagious ] and blameless [ amomus ] in his sight [ katenopion ].
4 days ago · Jansenism was a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in the Kingdom of France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain developments in the Roman Catholic Church, but later developing political and philosophical aspects ...
