1. Free Will vs. Predestination
How FREE Are You?
Free Will vs. Predestination

2. JOURNAL QUESTION
If I told you today that you were going to get an “A” in this class, what difference would that make in your attitude and actions?

3. PREDESTINATION It’s considered a heresy in the Catholic Church
It’s the belief that the will of God is the sole cause of salvation or damnation of a person (no matter what the person does)
It denies the freedom of the will

4. TULIP

5. TOTAL DEPRAVITY Basically, Adam and Eve screwed it all up for us
Due to their Original Sin, our whole beings have been corrupted
“Therefore, just as through one person sin entered the world, and through sin, death, and thus death came to all, inasmuch as all sinned.” -Romans 5:12

6. UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION
SAVED DAMNED

7. LIMITED ATONEMENT Jesus did not die for the sake of everyone
So did he die for YOU?

8. Irresistible Grace You can’t resist the love God is giving you
Can you imagine that?!

9. PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS
“Once saved, always saved”
“For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
And those he predestined he also called; and those he called he also justified; and those he justified he also glorified.” (Romans 8: 29-30)

10. What parts of Calvinism are attractive?
What parts of the Catholic response are NOT so attractive?

11. A CATHOLIC RESPONSE…

12. COMPARE AND CONTRAST TOTAL DEPRAVITY UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION
LIMITED ATONEMENT
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE
PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS
CONCUPISCENCE
EVERYONE IS INVITED
JESUS DIED FOR EVERYONE
GRACE CAN BE REJECTED
YOU CAN LOSE YOUR SALVATION