Explain Calvin’s view of predestination. Why does Calvin find it attractive?

Why doesn’t
Calvin think it is unfair? How could it be pastorally helpful?

John Calvin was great remembered pastor and a theologian of the 16 th century from France. He
believed in the doctrine of predestination mainly because of his personal and own biblical
interpretation, for instance he interpreted Ephesians 1:4-6, Romans 8:29-30, and Romans 8:29-30
in his own understanding.

In the above Bible Scriptures, Calvin believed that God has predestined certain individuals for
salvation and others for damnation, and that his decision is based on God’s sovereign will and
not on any action or merit of the individual. This doctrine is also known as double predestination,
as it holds that predestines some individuals for salvation and others reprobation. Calvin’s idea
of predestination is really interesting to research more on it. For example, his “belief is his
understanding which he real passionately believed in, he affirmed it is a super-lapsarian double
predestination. This means that the blessed are predestined to Heaven and the damned are
predestined to Hell.

From this study, if one thing everything happens for a reason and we have no control over our
own future, then one is said to believe in predestination. Well in religious matters or terms,
predestination is the belief that everything that happens has already been determined by God. In
simple words Predestination is the eternal decree of God, by which He has determined in
Himself what would have to become of every individual of mankind since they are not all
created with same destiny, but eternal life is fore-ordained for some.

Calvin’s thoughts are amazing, he thinks that before humans fell, God foreknew and preordained
not just knew but determined, ordered and was His will that some would be blessed and some
would be damned. From Calvin view, a person who has sinned was predestined to sin, and no
matter what a person does, they will go to Heaven or Hell based on that determination.

It is attractive, according to Calvin, evil resists sanctification because will is slothful and
narcissistic, and turned inward; sanctification is a growing deepening of our energy and growing
deepening of our outward to one another and to God.
Calvin finds the doctrine attractive; he sees the difficulty to be that evil relies on the endlessly
inventive character of the human imagination which is also tied directly with the metaphoric
seduction into evil. I like Calvin’s argument; he argues relates knowledge of sin in a divine way.
In a way, it is a sign and it is a reflection on our history that makes sense of our history in a new
kind of world.

After a future reading, research indicate that Calvin regarded soteriological predestination as
God’s eternal decree, by which he compacted with himself what he willed to become of each
man. For all are not created in equal condition, rather eternal life is fore-ordained for some,
eternal damnation for others.

In my opinion on predestination, God with His power which is unchangeably determines

whatsoever must come to pass and has the rights to do any thing beyond what we imagine. We
therefore should believe that God we all saved by grace.

In conclusion. In Calvinist theology, unconditional election is considered to be one aspect of

predestination in which God chooses certain individuals to be saved. Thos elected receive mercy,
while those not elected, the reprobates, receive justice without condition.