Corporate Meeting This Wednesday

Dear Folks, we'll be having our corporate meeting this Wednesday, 2nd November. As usual, we'll meet at the canteen at 6pm before proceeding to our allocated room, 4.17C.

Once again, the topic of the corporate meeting is "Predestination vs Free will". Guest speaker Mr Winston Tay has been invited to speak on the topic. To get maximum returns out of your time invested in coming for the corporate meeting, the following questions may provide some food for thought ahead of Wednesday. If you have answers to them, great! If not, even better! You can direct these questions to our speaker.

Arminianism (free will) is more appealing and simpler to understand. It is because it gives a more acceptable answer to the problem of evil. Arminianism says God permits us to do evil. Sounds better, protects the image of God. It also seems more compatible with the love of God. God wanting all to be saved but yet not preventing the free will of man is consistent with love. The harder questions are mostly targeted at Calvinism (predestination) therefore most questions are pro-Arminian.

1. Doesn't Calvinism make people into puppets? If God directs the human will, won't it just seem like we're actors in a play?

2. If we have free will, the will to choose whether to believe in God, then how can we say God is in total control? How can God's sovereignty be explained?

3. How can man be held accountable for his actions if he does not have free will? Is it fair for God to judge us as sinners then?

4. Calvinism makes God inconsistent. He offers the gospel to all men, yet all cannot believe. Isn't God deceitful, offering man with one hand and taking away with another?

5. How do we reconcile the fact that "God chose some to be saved" vs "God desires all to be saved."?

6. Why all the fuss? Why didn't God just elect all to be saved?

These questions are by no means exhaustive. Questions posted here are possibly the FAQs of "predestination" vs "free will". Feel free to post more questions on the SIM-SCF Facebook page for the benefit of the larger population.

Till Wednesday then! God bless! :)