Book 3/Chapter 23
Man’s responsibility (section 6)
1. What is the next objection to election that Calvin answers?
2. Does Calvin agree that foreknowledge by itself is not deterministic?
A predestined fall (section 7)
1. Does Calvin grant that the decree is dreadful?
2. If there were a legitimate complaint, where would it have to lodged?
Willing and permitting (section 8)
1. Does Calvin grant a distinction between the will of God and the permission of God?
2. What must be just?
3. Where should we focus our attention when contemplating the cause of our condemnation?
4. What is it to stay out of God’s decrees, and what is it to pry?
Another objection (section 9)
1. Does Calvin think he is able to silence the objectors?
2. What is it to act perversely in this?
Yet another objection (section 10)
1. What is a third objection that Calvin must answer?
2. How does Calvin answer this?
These are the questions for the readings for Thursday, August 12, and those readings can be found here.