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Boettner-Predestination

• 1. Introduction

• Section I

• 2. Statement of the Doctrine
• 3. God Has a Plan
• 4. The Sovereignty of God
• 5. The Providence of God
• 6. The Foreknowledge of God
• 7. Outline of Systems
• 8. The Scriptures Are the Final Authority by Which Systems Are to Be Judged
• 9. A Warning Against Undue Speculation

• Section II The Five Points of Calvinism

• 10. Total Inability
• 11. Unconditional Election
• 12. Limited Atonement
• 13. Efficacious Grace
• 14. The Perseverance of the Saints

• Section III: Objections Commonly Urged Against the Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

• 15. It Is Fatalism
• 16. It Is Inconsistent with the Free Agency and Moral Responsibility of Man
• 17. It Makes God the Author of Sin
• 18. It Discourages All Motives to Exertion
• 19. It Represents God As a Respecter of Persons, Or As Partial
• 20. It Is Unfavorable to Good Morality
• 21. It Precludes a Sincere Offer of the Gospel to the Non-Elect
• 22. It Contradicts the Universalistic Scripture Passages

• Section IV

• 23. Salvation by Grace
• 24. Personal Assurance That One Is Among the Elect
• 25. Predestination in the Physical World
• 26. A Comparison with the Mohammedan Doctrine of Predestination

• Section V

• 27. The Practical Importance of the Doctrine
• 28. Calvinism in History