Studies in Divine Election
Overview
With 38 years of ministry experience as a pastor, author, and professor, Sam Storms helps you understand the historical and biblical background of Christianity’s core beliefs and provides answers to challenging questions facing the modern church. This volume contains an introduction to divine election, an outline of the debate between Calvinism and Arminiansiam, and other topics intertwined with the will of God and the will of man.
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- Answers challenging questions facing the modern church
- Contains an introduction to divine election
- Provides an outline of the debate between Calvinism and Arminiansiam
Top Highlights
“The issue before us is why and on what grounds some are elected to salvation and eternal life and others are not. The question, then, is this: Does God elect people because they believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, or does God elect people in order that they shall believe in Christ?” (source)
“The question, rather, is this: Are faith and repentance produced by free will and thus the cause of election, or are they produced by the Holy Spirit and thus the effect of election?” (source)
“‘The Calvinistic mind,’ says Cottrell, ‘sees election as bringing about the transition from unbelief to belief, hence making unbelievers the object of election. The Arminian says that this transition is made by a free act of will; election then is an act of God directed toward the believer after the transition has been made’” (source)
“Prevenient grace provides people with the ability to choose or reject God. According to Wesley, ‘there is a measure of free-will supernaturally restored to every man’ (10:229–30). This grace, however, is not irresistible. Whereas all are recipients of prevenient grace, many resist it to their eternal demise. Those who utilize this grace to respond in faith to the gospel are saved. In summary, ‘Arminians maintain that ‘prevenient grace,’ a benefit that flows from Christ’s death on the cross, neutralizes human depravity and restores to pre-Christians everywhere the ability to heed God’s general call to salvation’ (Demarest, 208).” (source)
“The question, then, is this: If God truly desires for all to be saved in the way the Arminian contends, and if he knows what it is in the means of persuasion contained in the gospel that brings people to say yes, why doesn’t he orchestrate the presentation of the gospel in such a way that it will succeed in persuading all people to believe? The point is this: Surely the God who perfectly knows every human heart is capable of creating a world in which the gospel would prove successful in every case. And if God desires for all to be saved in the way the Arminian contends, why didn’t He?” (source)
- Title: Studies in Divine Election
- Author: Sam Storms
- Publisher: Sam Storms
- Print Publication Date: 2006
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 104
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Election (Theology)
- Resource ID: LLS:THEOLSTUDIESDIVELEC
- Resource Type: Monograph
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Sam Storms earned a ThM in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD in intellectual history from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the founder of Enjoying God Ministries, senior pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a former visiting professor of theology at Wheaton College. He has authored over two dozen books and served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.