Reblogging for future reference.
This won’t be a popular post among some, but I think it hits upon something that needs to be addressed in regard to how the doctrine 
of election and reprobation (double predestination) has taken shape; as far as its conceptual antecedents.
Greek metaphysics are never far from the development of Christian theology; many of the most notable church Fathers (and Mothers) were Greek (not all of course, we have Latin theologians of the era too, most prominent being Augustine); the trick of course is to reify or repurpose metaphysics in a way where said metaphysics get evangelized with the Gospel, such that their meaning is given determination by God in Christ himself instead of the other way around. I would like to suggest (emphasis upon suggest – since this is merely a blog post written under time constraints) that the classical conception of double predestination, of the kind that we…
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interesting 🙂
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