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New Orleans & Company, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the Caesars Superdome and hospitality partners are preparing to welcome more than 20,000 participants for the Lutheran Church — Missouri ...

Editor's Note: Given the ongoing debate over free will and predestination, we are running both articles from multiple perspectives. How can a good God send people to Hell? For many people, the idea ...

Biblical theology, including the idea of predestination, holds that God decided the salvation and eternal fate of particular people in Christ before the universe was formed. The Reformed theological ...

“The opposite of election is reprobation, sometimes called double predestination. This is the belief that God not only predetermines those who will be saved but also predetermines those who will not ...

John Calvin’s death occurred on May 27, 1564, toward eight o’clock in the evening. For him this was a welcome relief from the host of ailments that had burdened him for some time: asthma, gout, ulcer, ...

The title of Benjamin M. Friedman’s “Religious Influences on Economic Thinking” is dully academic but eye-catching all the same. It is a slim book, some of it a restatement of the argument the author ...

If God is not love but only knowledge, then it is difficult or impossible to see how human free will and divine predestination can both be true. But if God is love, there is a way. Freedom and ...

So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. —Romans II: 5-6 (Revised ...

Under the doctrine of merger by deed, certain terms, covenants and conditions of a contract for the sale of real property are merged with and into the deed to the property upon delivery. Based on the ...