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THE SPIRITUAL SAGACITY OF PREDESTINATION IN LOVE
FOREKNOWLEDGE AND CHRISTIAN FAITH
Robert E. Donaldson
Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.
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ISBN 09758436 9 9
APRIL 2006
Extended May-June- August 2006
June 2007
PREFACE
In this volume, there is much attention given to the heights and wonders of a freedom that soars, yet is not autonomy, a foreknowledge which selects, but is not a 'horrible decree', to use Calvin's term, a predestination in love and the simple fact that these biblical concepts are an apologetic triumph for biblical Christianity, for the lost who seek and for the insecure who long.
They are drawn from several chapters in other works, published since the fifth volume of the PQ or Predestination Quintet saw the light of day, with provision for further additions, one more being presented with this publication.
Now it is necessary to change that name PQ to PH, as in chemistry, where it refers to hydrogen ion concentration, the most acidic as ph 1, and the more alkaline assembling itself after ph 7. Here however, since this is not chemistry, it is a matter of PREDESTINATION HEXAD, for the latter term can mean simply a group of six. It is no longer the PQ. That is the new name for what is now a six volume set on predestination, freewill, responsibility, love, justice, judgment and duty.
When therefore one may see somewhere on this site, the PQ designation, this will now in fact refer to the PH, this current work.
HIS GROWTH IN GRACE AND HIS PLACE
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This chapter leads us to consider genetics and liberty, liberty and love, love and predestination, this and foreknowledge.
In addition, you may consult
News 45, 166, 153,
Licence for Liberty Ch. 6, 8,Lord of Life Ch. 5,
Beauty of Holiness Chs. 7 , 8,Spiritual Refreshings Ch. 13,
Tender Times for Timely Truth Ch. 10,Ancient Words and Modern Events Ch. 9;
Defining Drama Ch. 10
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In this, we examine some of the ideas of Tolstoy in this field, and find a proto-Marxist approach, which however, while urbane enough, does not come to the depth of that false prophet.
We see that it is not a question of endless causative dynamics in a consequential world, for this is a mere creaking of the structure of things. There is far more to account for, but Tolstoy is a good starting point.
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In this chapter, destiny and judgment receive focus, and how our basic topics relate to them.
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This is a large chapter, roving through much of our whole domain, with attention to the very nature of love, longing, pity, compassion and results.
Are there two sides to divine mercy and justice, human need and its provisions sent from the Lord ?
VOLUNTARY BLINDNESS FOR VITAL DELIGHT
THE HAPPY, HALLOWED and
HARMONIOUS NATURE OF THE CHRISTIAN TEACHING
OF THE BIBLE, CONCERNING THE PASSION BEYOND PITY,
OF GOD
MATTERS OF LOVE, WHOSE LABOUR
IS NEVER LOST
WHEN THE LOVE IS OF GOD,
AS SHOWN IN THE EARLY CHAPTERS OF JEREMIAH
TIME TO LOOK AROUND IN THE WORD OF GOD
FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE GENERATION OF GRACE
Grace's prodigality and pervasive presentation
from Gracious Goodness and This World in Disorder Epilogue
Chapter 10
THE LOVE OF GOD IS PURE, NOT INFLAMED,
KIND, NOT TO BE DEFAMED
from Downfall from Defamation Ch. 3
INVETERATE TREND TO MISCONSTRUE:
It is almost like a theological flirtation with Miss-Understanding:
but it is necessary to 'go steady' with God, by faith,
trusting Him and all He says:
such is the way of love, and it is founded in truth.
SEE ALSO:
Great Execrations, Great Enervations, Greater Grace Ch. 7, 9;
Dizzy Dashes, Heady Clashes
and the Brilliant Harmony of Inevitable Truth
Ch. 6, esp. *3
Massifs of Pure Splendour Ch. 7.
To Know God ... Ch. 1.
THE DYNAMIC AND DENIAL OF GOODNESS
- From THE COURT OF CULTURE
to THE COMPANY OF CHRIST
from Glory, Vainglory and Goodness Ch. 7
THE AWESOME WONDER
OF THE ILLIMITABLE CASCADE
OF DIVINE LOVE
from Ch. 7 Grand Biblical Perspectives
Ch. 13 (2007 addition)
The Design of Predestination
The Depravity of Sin, the Engulfing Dynamic of Evil
and its Engulfment
from Ch. 10 of Deity and Design, Designation and Destiny
APPENDIX ON GRACE, LIBERTY, LOVE,
RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH, MEANING
AND THEIR UNIQUE CONSISTENCY
IN THE BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
Seeing foreknowledge and predestination, love and repudiation, history and liberty, in the scriptural light, that all may be seen in harmonious uniqueness: nothing less is found in the word of God, than what meets all the scope of man's thought in these arenas, leaving him naked to the word, but invited to be covered.
While such things have been touched before, providing a background for this,
(cf. Marvels of Predestination and the Ways of Will Ch. 6, 'theology' and Bible;
Ch. 6, *2, will and meritless operation;
Ch. 2 (selections);
The Pride of Life, the Prince of Life and the Destiny of Man Ch. 3, *1
Tender Times for Timely Truth Ch. 11, esp. pp.172ff.;
Great Execrations, Great Enervations, Greater Grace Ch. 9;
His Wounds Opened Eternity Ch. 4 (also contrasted with Islamic deficiencies);
Sparkling Life ... Ch. 7,
Earth Spasm... Ch. 6;
Scaling the Heights ... Ch. 5),
yet this is considered in the light of the findings of Ch. 9, above, so that if any lack, they may feed on the word of God.