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Acts 4:28: “to do whatever Your hand and purpose predestined to occur.”
Rom. 8:29: “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren;
Rom. 8:30: “and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.”
1 Cor. 2:7: “but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory.”
Eph. 1:5: “He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will.”
Eph. 1:11: “also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will.”

ellauri155.html on line 685: You must also note that God predestines people such as Paul and his friends in Rom. 8:30, and Eph. 1:5, 11. There is, however, controversy as to the nature of this predestination. In the Reformed (Calvinist) camp, predestination includes individuals. In other words, the Reformed doctrine of predestination is that God predestines whom He wants to be saved and that without this predestination, none would be saved. The non-Reformed camp states that God predestines people to salvation, but that these people freely choose to follow God on their own. In other words, in the non-Reformed perspective, God is reacting to the will of individuals and predestining them only because they choose God, whereby contrast the Reformed position states that people choose God only because He has first predestined them. I must say that the non-reformed position 2) sounds like gobbledygook. Either you get predestined or you don´t, what the fuck. Who was it that thought predestination and free will were compatible, was it Hume? Yes it was! The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy paper on this topic is so wordy that it needed translating into Basic English.
ellauri155.html on line 791: What was Calvin’s answer? He reminds his readers what the predestinated are predestined to do! He points out what the Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 1:4, where he reminds us that the end for which we are elected is “that we should be holy, and without blame before him.” “If the end of election is holiness of life, it ought to arouse and stimulate us strenuously to aspire to it, instead of serving as a pretext for sloth.” He develops how predestination should lead us to fear God all the more, and consequently should both comfort us and spur us on even in the worst of times to greater holiness.
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