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    Unconditional election (also called sovereign election or unconditional grace) is a Calvinist doctrine relating to predestination that describes the actions...
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  • are occasionally known by the acrostic TULIP: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the...
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    voters cast their ballots before Election Day. Early voting periods vary from 4 to 50 days prior to Election Day. Unconditional early voting in person is allowed...
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    three different Protestant beliefs. Lutherans historically hold to unconditional election to salvation. However, some do not believe that there are certain...
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  • importance of a person's free will. The counter-view is known as unconditional election, and is the belief that God chooses whomever he will, based solely...
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    Dort is given by the five points of Calvinism: Total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the...
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    understood salvation to be by grace alone and affirmed a doctrine of unconditional election, the teaching that some people are chosen by God to be saved. Luther...
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  • series Election (Christianity), a theological term Predestination, a religious concept Conditional election Unconditional election "Election" (The Vicar...
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    compatibilist form of theological determinism, and implied a form of unconditional election. Divine monergism later became a foundational principle in Lutheran...
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    doctrine is derived from Augustine's explanation of Original Sin. "Unconditional election" asserts that God has chosen from eternity those whom he will bring...
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    would lead of necessity, either to universalism on the one hand, or unconditional election. This argument has been considered by some as a false dilemma. In...
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    all their sins, even their original sin. The former is called "unconditional election", and the latter "reprobation". In Calvinism, some people are predestined...
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  • adherents to determine their election. The concept persisted into the 19th century. This assurance forms the foundation of unconditional eternal security within...
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  • Calvinism by affirming libertarian free will and due to a denial of unconditional election. The view thus teaches that every man is able to respond positively...
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    affirmed both election and reprobation in the strongest terms. The Lutheran confessions, however, affirm God's unconditional election of those on Whom...
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    Sacraments, but rather instead came through the individual, and Unconditional election of God, which could not be forfeited. However Roman Catholic practices...
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    faith in Christ, thereby preserving the Calvinist doctrine of the unconditional election of individuals. Unlimited atonement has a number of important points...
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    Calvinists, revivalists also preached the doctrines of original sin and unconditional election. Due to the fall of man, humans are naturally inclined to rebel...
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    exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace. Hawthorne frequently focuses on the tensions...
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    unconditional opposition to abortion and describing pregnancy resulting from rape as "unpleasant" sparked significant backlash. An important election...
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  • Stranger in His Own Land Slusser condemned the secular sort of Unconditional election philosophy Heinlein propounded in his books: "Heinlein is a writer...
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    predestination and unconditional election made God the author of evil. Instead, Arminius insisted God's election was an election of believers and therefore...
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    on their own, and thereby preserving the Calvinist doctrine of unconditional election. The efficacy of the atonement remains limited to those who believe...
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    of Calvinism, remembered by the mnemonic TULIP (total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace and perseverance of the saints)...
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  • and be predestined for eternal salvation; Calvinists view this election as unconditional, based not on human merit or works but solely on God's sovereign...
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    confessions. Some Lutheran church bodies require this pledge to be unconditional because they believe the confessions correctly state what the Bible...
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    Calvinism, some holding to unconditional election, others holding to conditional election and others still holding to an election that is partly both. Alfred...
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  • The Unconditional Union Party was a unionist political party in the United States during the American Civil War. It was a regional counterpart to the...
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    that God's election does not depend upon any human response, necessitating a belief in (1) both Total Depravity and Unconditional Election, (2) Irresistible...
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    front of the church sanctuary. They believe in limited atonement, unconditional election, and the double predestination of both the saved and the damned...
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