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Absolute Predestination
by
Jerome Zanchius
"In whom we also have been chosen to an
inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of the One working
all things according to the counsel of His will"
(Ephesians 1:11)
Jerome Zanchius (1516-1590) created his
age-enduring classic in response to the challenges of those who persisted in
charging God with being the Author of sin because He says in the Scriptures
that He predestinated all things that come to pass. His answer is
irrefutable.
The first forty-two pages describes God as
He is revealed in His holy Word. He is all-wise and all-powerful. He is
perfect and unchangeable. He, being by Himself alone in eternity, determined
to create a universe, and to people that universe with being of His own
choice. He saw in His mind the entire course of events, and the persons who
would act out these events, and having all things completely settled in His
mind beforehand, He decreed all things that were to occur. The distinctions
thus having been established in His own mind, He at one time, in one act of
His will, predestinated all things "according
to the counsel of His will."
The author then takes up the subject of
predestination. The word means to "deliberate beforehand with ones’
self how one shall act; and in consequence of such deliberation to
constitute, fore-ordain, and predetermine where and when, how and by whom
anything shall be done, and to what end it shall be done.. Who else but God
is able to both conceive and order all the happenings in time and eternity?
This book is not only closely reasoned, but
it is backed and proven by Scripture throughout. It is made abundantly clear
that men may not absolve themselves of evil because of God’s eternal
predestination of all things. God leaves all men with a freedom to will, but
in their total depravity all choose to will only what is evil in the eyes of
God. For,
"God is not tempted by evils, and He
tempts no one. But each one is tempted by his own lusts, having been drawn
out and having been seduced [by them]. Then being conceived, lust
brings forth sin; and sin being fully formed brings forth death" (James
1:13-15)
In the 400 plus years since this book was
inscribed, no one has given a better explanation of this difficult subject.
Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/2” , 132 pages
I.S.B.N. 1-878442-25-2
$8.99
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