MIKE MAZZALONGO

Error and Consequence9

• Original Goodness

Man is created good with the free will and responsibility to remain as such.

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• Original Goodness

• Fall Through Sin

Through disobedience man becomes subject to suffering and death but retains the ability to choose right from wrong.

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• Original Goodness• Fall Through Sin

• Reconciliation with God through Christ– God works through Christ to save

man.

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Election = “To Choose”

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.- I John 4:7-8

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4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,- I Timothy 2:4-5

Election

In order to fulfill his will, God made a choice (not that some would be

saved and that some would be lost). He chose Jesus Christ as the

one through whom everyone could be saved.

Election

The doctrine of election centers on Christ

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 4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For this is contained in Scripture:   “BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”

- I Peter 2:4-6

“…It is now sufficiently plain that God, by his secret course, chooses whom he will save while he rejects others…”Calvin(Institutes of the Christian Religion III. 21)

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“By the decree of God for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestined to everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death.”Savoy declaration of 1658, iii, 3 (English catechism)

Election

1.God has chosen Christ through whom He desires all men to be saved.

Biblical Election

4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,- I Timothy 2:4-5

Biblical Election

And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,- I Peter 2:4

Biblical Election

5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,   “SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED,  BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; 6 IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.  7 “THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’”- Hebrews 10:5-7

1. God has chosen Christ through whom He desires all men to be saved.

2. God offers all men the opportunity to be saved through Jesus Christ.

Biblical Election

18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,- Matthew 28:18-19

Biblical Election

He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.- Mark 16:16

Biblical Election

1. God has chosen Christ through whom He desires all men to be saved.

2. God offers all men the opportunity to be saved through Jesus Christ.

3. Those who are united to Christ by faith, share His election.

Biblical Election

26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.- Galatians 3:26-27

Biblical Election

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love - Ephesians 1:3-4

Biblical Election

• Alexander Campbell

• Barton W. Stone

• John Smith

Restoration Movement

The preachers of the early Restoration Movement taught that God wanted all men to be saved… and all men could be saved.

Restoration Movement

Calvinist PredestinationGod knew in advance of their existence, those He would choose for salvation and those He would choose for damnation.

Predestination

Predestination / foreknowledge

I know the end resultbefore the end

Predestination

Biblical PredestinationDoctrine that refers to God’s ability to know the result or the end of a matter. More specifically, what the end will be for those who choose Christ.

Predestination

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;- Romans 8:29

Predestination

He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, - Ephesians 1:5

Predestination

Biblical Predestination expresses the idea that God knew from the very beginning that His choice of Jesus would have the result of reconciling mankind to Himself.

Predestination

Predestination

Our faith is based on the sureness of God’s election (choice) and Predestination

(foreknowledge).

Predestination

Our Spiritual Destinyis in Our Hands.

Predestination

• A Christ centered doctrine, not man centered.

• God chooses Christ, not man• The only men and women chosen by

God directly are those who will serve His plan of bringing the “Elect” son to earth.

Review: Election

• Refers to a divine characteristic of God wherein He knows the end result of the choices He has made, as well as the end result of the choices we have made.

Review: Predestination