If God Chose Us Before Creation, How Can We Be Free? (podcast)

URI Inauguration of David M. Dooley -Greg’s Speech: 4/8/10 April 25, 2010

Watch Greg’s Speech at the Inauguration of David M. Dooley at the University of Rhode Island.

Re-Thinking Predestination April 5, 2018

In Ephesians, we read that God predestined that there would be a church. It reads: “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in…

Lighten Up: Fate January 3, 2014

If every effect has a cause, how can there be free choice? January 9, 2008

The most common argument given in defense of determinism is that it’s implied in the nature of causation. Every event has a cause, and this cause accounts for the event being the way it is. This cause must itself have had a cause that accounts for it, and so on ad infinitum. Hence, everything must…

Predestination Part 2: Seeing Destiny Rightly July 7, 2014

For Part 1, click here. In Ephesians Paul teaches that God “chose us in [Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight” (Eph 1:4). In Christ, Paul continues, God “predestined us for adoption to sonship…to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in…

What is omni-resourcefulness? December 23, 2007

Question: What do you mean when you refer to God’s omni-resourcefulness? Can you support this with Scripture? Answer: I and others use the term omni-resourcefulness to highlight a feature of God in Scripture that the classical theological tradition consistently overlooks. Part of the greatness of the God of the Bible, we argue, is that he…