Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Reading notes

Modern discussions of the infralapsarian definition as less 'harsh' than the supralapsarian form often miss the point that the results of the two definitions are identical: the infralapsarian form does not argue that more human beings are brought into the kingdom, nor does it leave any opening for the human will in matters of salvation. It merely identifies the human objects of the eternal decree differently - as created and fallen rather than as creatable and liable.

- Richard Muller, "Beza's Tabula Praedestinationis" from Protestant Scholasticism, pg. 59.

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