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Summary: The ABSOLUTE BEST introductory work on Predestination.
Review: This is definitely the best introductory work on the doctrine of predestination. Sproul makes the Biblical teaching clear to the serious beginner with a depth that rewards repeated study. Buy this book!
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Summary: An inhumane idea
Review: The one thing I do appreciate about this book is that it is consistent with what the New Testament teaches about salvation. At least this guy has the guts to stick to his guns having embraced biblical inerrancy. It is also not surprizing that this idea would be glorified. If faith is embraced as a valid epistimological procedure- anything goes. Practically speaking, Sproul, and the NT bring to the world a message that is one level lower than nihilism. The amazing thing is that good men and women have bought into this idea, hook, line and sinker. I read this book because this is the kind of thing my neices are being taught. This breaks my heart.
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Summary: This book made me re-think my position with God.
Review: I'm looking for a copy of this book in hardback. Any Help
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Summary: Spiritually Dead?
Review: Great book. R.C. Sproul helped turn me to Calvinism. I read some of the Arminian reviews and am distressed. The best illustration of Calvinism is thus: go to a cemetary and ask the dead to rise w/o God's help.Sproul uses his background in philosphy to lay the groundwork for cogent and logical arguments. I didn't like being a Calvinist at first, but I know realize it's sweetness and beauty. Our original sin, our orientation, justly condemns us, but due to His mercy we are saved.
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Summary: Re-assuring
Review: Years ago I had no idea of the Calvinist or Arminian view or even realized Christians would debate over such matters. In my beginning walk with God I was so thrilled to know I was saved and had finally found real meaning and purpose to this life. Before knowing God, I, like so many others, thought I was "good enough" to go to Heaven and God would accept me because I was basically a "good person" who made the right decisions in life and did what I could to help mankind. When I first found Christ I decided, once again, that I had made the right choice. What a humbling experience to realize it wasn't me at all! If my salvation was based on my decision and not on God's, then who is really sovereign here-me or God? I couldn't help but think of people who are mentally incapable of understanding they had to make a decision about Christ. Or what about babies who died before they could even think about such things? What about someone who suffered from an accident at some point in their life, was brain dead and couldn't possibly receive Christ before they died? Are we to assume all these are "out-of-luck" because they couldn't chose? Dr. Sproul gives us something to consider. "Chose by God" helps us understand who's really sovereign.
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Summary: An Excellent Presentation of Calvinism, but...
Review: As an Arminian, I love reading Sproul's books related to the Calvinist/Arminian debate. He so clearly presents what he believes that I know exactly why I disagree with him on Calvinism. As a Calvinist, Sproul believes that God imputes Adam's guilt to the entire human race and then affirms that God condemns some to hell on the basis of it. He thinks this is just. This is INJUSTICE and Kafkaesque (read Franz Kafka's The Trial). Arminians believe that God DOESN'T condemn anybody to hell for Adam's sin (or their inherited sin nature). Sproul tries to separate the Reformed view of double predestination from hyper-Calvinism, but I don't think he succeeds because he believes that God actively, positively, decreed all guilty of Adam's sin. He defends this immoral view by saying that Christ's atonement is based on similar reasoning. God imputes the Christian's sin to Christ and Christ's righteousness to the born-again sinner. The problem here is that Christ was willing. Also, Arminians say that the sinner must be willing to accept Christ's sacrifice for guilty WILLFUL sin (not original sin). Sproul, like all Calvinists, divorce salvation from moral responsibility and think this is what grace means. Men are not morally free to become guilty and they are not morally free to become innocent. True Christians who commit the same sins as non-Christians can be assured that their immorality wont forfeit their salvation because their "free will" was, and isn't, involved in salvation or damnation at all. Read Robert Shank's books "Life in the Son" and "Elect in the Son," Richard Taylor's "A Right Conception of Sin," and Daniel Corner's "The Believer's Conditional Security" for a thorough refutation of the DANGEROUS doctrines of Calvinism. - Brad Clark
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Summary: A logical, well-written book
Review: Anyone who has ever scoffed at the doctrine of predestination, as I once did, should read this book. This doctrine, without a doubt, gives God all the glory.
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Summary: Very comforting philosophy.
Review: I found this book to be assuring for a doubter. Although I accepted Christ at a very young age, I was never sure whether I had done it correctly. This book shows that it is not how you do it, but that God does the saving without our help. He has chosen those who are to be His. He makes sure they "find" Him. It takes away the worry over the problem of doing it right. Sproul has written in a simple but profound way that we do not choose God, but He chooses us.
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Summary: I don't agree with everything he says, but I like his style.
Review: Sproul did not turn me into a Calvanist, but I sure like his style. The book certainly gave me a lot to think about; the author makes the sometimes unpopular arguments as well as anyone I have read. I wish I had the opportunity to ask a few followup questions! The subject of predestination as a product of God's foreknowledge was skimmed over too lightly. The author also takes a few "shortcuts" ( granted a book has space limitations ), and sometimes argues too quickly to a predetermined conclusion. Nontheless, I like his style!
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Summary: A must read for ALL Christians.
Review: After reading "Chosen By God", I gained a much greater appreciation for God's grace and love. I have shared the book with several others, and it has always clarified God's election of us. Before reading the book, I, like many Christians, thought it was God's "vote" and not his choice alone.
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