This article from the Presbyterian of September 5, 1900 comes from B. B. Warfield’s Scrapbook through the courtesy of Dr. Roger Nicole of Gordon Conwell Seminary. The rather unfamiliar word “preterition” means according to Webster, “The Calvinistic doctrine that God passes over those not elect, leaving them to eternal death”; among us the more common […]

God, who worketh all things after the counsel of his will, deals with our sinful world in terms of Jesus Christ. It has pleased God “to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth” (Eph. 1:10). In Christ the grace of God has appeared. Our Savior has abolished […]

The doctrine of predestination is the teaching that before the creation of the world God decided the everlasting destiny of each individual person that he would make. God’s choice to save certain sinners by grace is called election, and his choice to damn certain sinners as they deserve is reprobation. Predestination is part of God’s […]