One Sunday night our Priest at St. Benedict's Table spoke briefly about predestination. He gave this quote from Paul Achtemeier on what Paul might have meant by 'predestine'.
"As Paul uses the words 'foreknow' or 'predestine,' they do not refer in the first instance to some limitation on our freedom, nor do they refer to some arbitrary decision by God that some creatures are to be denied all chances at salvation. They simply point to the fact that God knows the end which he will bring his creation, namely redemption, and that destiny is firmly set in his purposes. God has already set the destiny of creation: the destiny is redemption, as Paul has just told us(vs. 21). In that sense Paul can speak of 'pre-destination.' It means, just as the word says, that the destiny has already been set; and that destiny is the final redemptive transformation of reality
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2 comments:
Well said!
very well said indeed!
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