Lecture 36

So I am a Christian, but I am also an open-minded person. I respect all other beliefs and I feel that everyone should be same for beliefs that aren't like their own. In this reading, Calvin speaks of predestination. I personally believe that God has a plan for me and in the reading it says that God is the dictator of our good and our evil. What I have been raised to believe is not that God makes our every move for us, but that our final steps are predetermined by Him. It's not like we are puppets on strings. We have our own free will, but God already knows the steps we will take in life, he is not making them for us because it is our decisions in life that will take us to heaven or hell. Calvin also mentions that God makes us do not only the good , but the wrong too. God doesn't MAKE us do anything, and from a Christian standpoint I believe that if that were true, there would be no need for Satan. So I disagree with most of Calvin's theories, but that's not to say that someone else might see them differently.