Calvinistic Controversy

If God foreknows every human choice, has he therefore ordained it? Wilbur Fisk opens with a question that turns divine knowledge into the fault line of a fierce theological dispute.

In this early-19th-century sermon, Fisk begins with Paul’s words about being chosen “before the foundation of the world,” then asks what predestination truly means. Writing amid a long-running debate between Calvinists and their critics, he promises to speak plainly, but in a spirit of Christian charity. His challenge is direct: if every act is fixed by divine decree, what becomes of human freedom and moral accountability? Fisk takes up the arguments from God’s foreknowledge, the need for a divine plan, and Scripture itself, insisting that knowing an event is not the same as causing it. Can human choice remain real beneath the shadow of divine certainty?

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