Loraine Boettner: Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

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1. Introduction.

2. Statement of the Doctrine

3. God Has a Plan

4. The Sovereignty of God

5. The Providence of God

6. The Foreknowledge of God

7. Outline of Systems

8. The Scriptures Are the Final Authority by Which Systems Are to Be Judged

9. A Warning Against Undue Speculation

The Five Points of Calvinism

10. Total Inability

11. Unconditional Election

Statement of the Doctrine

Proof from Scripture

Proof from Reason

Faith and Good Works Are the Fruits and Proof, Not the Basis, of Election

Infralapsarianism and Supralapsarianism

Many Are Chosen

A Redeemed World or Race

The Vastness of the Redeemed Multitude

The World Is Growing Better

Infant Salvation

Summary of the Reformed Doctrine of Election

12. Limited Atonement

13. Efficacious Grace

14. The Perseverance of the Saints

1. It Is Fatalism

2. It Is Inconsistent with the Free Agency and Moral Responsibility of Man

3. It Makes God the Author of Sin

4. It Discourages All Motives to Exertion

5. It Represents God As a Respecter of Persons, Or As Partial

6. It Is Unfavorable to Good Morality

7. It Precludes a Sincere Offer of the Gospel to the Non-Elect

8. It Contradicts the Universalistic Scripture Passages

23. Salvation by Grace

24. Personal Assurance That One Is Among the Elect

25. Predestination in the Physical World

26. A Comparison with the Mohammedan Doctrine of Predestination

27. The Practical Importance of the Doctrine

28. Calvinism in History

Index of Scripture References