Continually Sharpening

A theological blog by Dr. Janelle Zeeb

Articles About Predestination

Will God Save Everyone?

In my previous blog post, I explained why I think that God truly wants to save everyone.

Yet the fact that the Bible says that God clearly wants to save everyone doesn't necessarily mean that God actually will save everyone.

But why not? If God truly loves everyone, and if …

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Does God Really Want To Save Everyone?

If you have ever attended a Christian church, I hope that you would have heard things like:

  • "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).
  • "God shows his love for us …
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Why I Wrote My Dissertation on Predestination

As part of my preparation for my dissertation defence in August 2021, I was asked to think about why my doctoral research matters to the church.

At first glance, I admit that my investigation into why the eighteenth-century Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards believed that God predestines most people to hell …

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Theodicy as a Criteria for Theology

In an earlier post, I talked about why I'm interested in theodicy. Theodicy is the attempt to defend God's goodness despite all the evil and suffering in the world.

In this post, I want to talk more about how theodicy is one criteria I use to determine some of my …

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Why Did God Create the Universe?

For my PhD dissertation, I am studying the American pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards, who lived in the 1700s.

To me, one of his most interesting writings is titled "Concerning The End for Which God Created the World," sometimes shortened to "End of Creation". It was one of the last …

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