John Calvin’s Doctrine of Predestination (1)

Introduction Adore with astonishment the secret counsel of God, through which, those which seemed good to Him are elected, and the other rejected!¹ That was our believer/theologian's approach to predestination. He prostrated his mind and heart before the God of the Word; and because he heard God speaking so clearly of His eternal predestination, Calvin believed it, taught it, and preached it! Calvin practiced Sola Scriptura! That reforming principle demanded predestination; and it delivered...