What Are Election and Predestination?

by Richard D. Phillips

Publisher:

P&R

, 2006

Overview

The doctrines of election and predestination are often misunderstood outside Reformed circles. This booklet clearly and simply explains these truths, showing their biblical basis and practical application.

Contents

Top Highlights

“It cuts across the grain of the humanistic teaching in which we are so steeped; it offends the wisdom of this world; it puts to death the human pride so native to our flesh.” (Page 11)

“Why did he believe while others did not? Is it because of something within Christians that is more spiritual, that is better in some way, that enables them to believe while others hear the same message and do not?’ The Bible answers, ‘No! It is not because of anything in them, but because of something in God, namely, his eternal and sovereign election of these individuals to be his own through faith in Jesus Christ.’” (Page 8)

“The answer is that the Bible teaches both divine predestination and full human responsibility” (Page 23)

“The Bible gives ample testimony that there was a covenant, or agreement, in eternity between God the Father and God the Son, established in a pre-creation council. Hebrews 13:20 refers to this as ‘the eternal covenant.’” (Page 7)

“If you are wrestling with this doctrine of election, your first question should be: Is it taught by the Bible? The” (Page 11)

Product Details

• Title: What Are Election and Predestination?
• Author: Richard D. Phillips
• Series: Basics of the Reformed Faith
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2006
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Election (Theology); Predestination; Reformed Church › Doctrines; Presbyterian Church › Doctrines
• ISBNs: 9781596380455, 1596380454
• Resource ID: LLS:WHTRLCTPRDSTNTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:47:38Z

About Richard D. Phillips

Richard Davis Phillips has been the Senior Minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, South Carolina (PCA) since July, 2007. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan, and a master of business administration degree at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Prior to entering the ministry, he commanded tank units as an officer in the U.S. Army and later served as an assistant professor of leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He came to faith in Jesus Christ at the age of 30, and was soon was leading evangelistic Bible studies at the college where he was teaching. A few years later he received God’s call to enter the gospel ministry, and received a master of divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA.