“For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son.”
--Romans 8:29

Two of the cardinal points in Calvin’s doctrine of predestination are, first, that “God elects individuals to be saved”; second, that “He designs complete redemption for these elect only.” The Koran teaches that “Every event is predestined from eternity and cannot possibly be avoided.” From these teachings there has grown a form of fatalism which declares that “if a man is born to be hanged he will never be drowned.” The old idea of predestination was most discouraging, since no man knew whether he was elected of God to be saved or not, so that regardless of his efforts to live the Christian life, he was always more or less uncertain about the post mortem consequences. Happily this is changing, even in the churches which recognize Calvin as their earthly founder. It is difficult to reconcile the predestination of one man to eternal bliss and another to endless torment with the justice of