Theodicy Soteriology, Hermeneutics

SOTERIOLOGY : M. M. NINAN
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Predestination and Freewill of Persons
PROPHECY AND PREDETERMINATION
We are still to address the problem of Prophecy and its fulfillment. Bible does proclaim future
and it certainly will come to pass. The question is how will this reconcile with the freedom of
will of man? Since what is prophesied will come to pass, God has predestined it already and
therefore free will of man is simply a myth. This conclusion is not mitigated even if we say
that man lost his free will only after fall. God did know that Adam was going to disobey.
Otherwise the predestination and election "before the creation of world" will be an absurdity.
Eph 1: 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world
On the basis of this argument we should assume that even Adam did not have the freedom of
choice. It was decreed and predestined and in the first council of Trinity the covenant was
sealed and all the future plans were laid out in detail to the minute. Thus we will have to
conclude that even Adam did not have the freedom to choose. Adam was not responsible for
his action. God was responsible. It was all God's doing.
This will also imply that God himself had no freedom. It was all decided in the first convenant
between the trinity. Now that it is all fixed, even God cannot change it. God himself became
his own prisoner, out of which he can never break out. True God is none other than
Predestination. God himself created this monster and he will remain its prisoner to the end.
What a pity.
Evidently such a God is neither sovereign nor free. The doctrine of predestination as taught
by the reformation cannot explain the existence of any free willed persons outside of a unitary
monadic God. Not even Trinity - three person in the substance of Godhead can be
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