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Calvinist and Non-Calvinist views of salvation - summarized
Some have questioned whether omniscience is compatible with [[free will]]; specifically, [[Calvinist]]s have argued that God knows whether a person will be saved before he is born. If God has foreknowledge, then only one path (known, albeit, only to God) can be chosen and therefore allows only one action can be taken; if God had seen that the man were bound to heaven, for example, he could not be but virtuous, while were he bound to hell he must, by definition, sin.
Some have questioned whether omniscience is compatible with [[free will]]; specifically, [[Calvinist]]s have argued that God knows whether a person will be saved before he is born. If God has foreknowledge, then only one path (known, albeit, only to God) can be chosen and therefore allows only one action can be taken; if God had seen that the man were bound to heaven, for example, he could not be but virtuous, while were he bound to hell he must, by definition, sin.
However, some believe knowledge of what the outcome of a man or woman's free will will be does not preclude his or her freedom. They contend that it is possible for God to know how a man or woman will exercise their free will and at the same time not interfere with it.
However, some believe knowledge of what the outcome of a man or woman's free will will be does not preclude his or her freedom. They contend that it is possible for God to know how a man or woman will exercise their free will and at the same time not interfere with it. [[Calvinism|Calvinists]] who deny that man has free will teach that God bestows saving grace (Irresistible Grace) only on those he already knows will only by the determination of his grace choose heaven, the elect, whom he has elected to save from all eternity. Non-Calvinist Christians who assert that man has free will teach that the gift of saving grace is available to all ("not willing that any should perish"<ref>2 Peter 3:9</ref>) and that those who freely choose to persistently resist God's will are condemned by their own fault, and those who persistently choose to freely submit to the gift of his will to save "whosoever will" shall certainly be saved.
Some believe that this creates a logical paradox, but the paradox hinges on the concept of time.
Some believe that this creates a logical paradox, but the paradox hinges on the concept of time.