Does The Bible Teach Predestination?
No one who has studied God’s Word can doubt that it teaches “predestination,” but few seem to understand what predestination is all about. A careful study of the Scriptures reveals that predestination has absolutely nothing to do with the supposition that some humans are predestined to annihilation in a “burning hell,” while others are supposedly foreordained to receive eternal life. When rightly understood, predestination merely concerns when and how God will call various ones to an understanding of the Truth to be given their God-given chance to receive His free gift of immortality! The Apostle Peter tells us, “The Lord is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9; cf. Matt. 18:14). He also says that “God shows no partiality” (Acts 10:34). The Apostle Paul assures us that “God our Savior desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:3-4; cf. John 3:16). Clearly, however, these verses do not say it is God
