Sorry to my Baptist friends. Don't read if easily offended.
Foreknown, Not Forced Rethinking Election in 1 Peter 1 Heretic Republic For many Christians, predestination isn’t something they chose to believe. It’s something they inherited. You heard the words early: chosen , elect , foreknown . Someone told you they meant God picked some people to be saved and others not to be—and that questioning it meant questioning God Himself. So you nodded, maybe felt a little uneasy, and moved on. After all, it sounded biblical. Then you read passages like 1 Peter 1: “God’s elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father…” And the conclusion felt obvious: God chose. God decided. The rest is settled. Except… that conclusion doesn’t actually come from Peter. It comes from a theological system we’ve been taught to read into him. And once you notice that, the text starts doing something very different. Why This Feels So Settled (Even When It’s Not) Most Christians don’t arrive at Calvinistic predestination by study. They arrive by default . We ...
