“Predestination means that from all eternity God has determined upon man’s acquital at His own cost.”
- Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics
“Barth wants to eliminate any sense that God’s love for us is somehow conditional upon or determined by us. Though the reformers affirmed salvation by God’s grace alone, many of their heirs came to speak of salvation as a result of something we did, thought or felt:“If you repent and believe, then you will be saved. If not, you will not be saved.” We like that message because we live in a culture in which our subjectivity and our actions tend to be everything. . . [However] Barth’s view of salvation is strongly “objective” --our feelings and response have little to do with it. Barth means to say, in effect, Jesus Christ has accomplished your salvation. This is [the] undeniable,ultimately irrstable fact. (49)“
- Will Willimon, Who will be Saved?
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