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	Reprobation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reprobation, in Christian theology, is a corollary to the Calvinist doctrine of unconditional election which derives that since (in this view) some of mankind (the elect) are predestined by God for salvation, the remainder are necessarily pre-ordained to damnation, i.e.
		The word reprobation is from the Latin reprobatus, to disallow; which in turn is from the prefix re and the verb probare, to prove.
		In all of the Reformed creeds in which the doctrine of Reprobation is dealt with at all it is treated as an essential part of the doctrine of Predestination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reprobation (1294 words)

	http://www.TraditionalCatholic.net
		The counterpart of the predestination of the good is the reprobation of the wicked, or the eternal decree of God to cast all men into hell of whom He foresaw that they would die in the state of sin as his enemies.
		This plan of Divine reprobation may be conceived either as absolute and unconditional or as hypothetical and conditional, according as we consider it as dependent on, or independent of, the infallible foreknowledge of sin, the real reason of reprobation.
		For the primary intention of the Epistle to the Romans is to insist on the gratuity of the vocation to Christianity and to reject the Jewish presumption that the possession of the Mosaic Law and the carnal descent from Abraham gave to the Jews an essential preference over the heathens.
	traditionalcatholic.net /Tradition/Encyclopedia/Predestination.html (5734 words)

	Free Presbyterian Church - Online Pamphlet
		Thus while election is entirely sovereign and unconditional, reprobation is partly sovereign and partly judicial--i.e., while nonelection depends on God's good pleasure, His judgment of sinners is conditional upon their sin.
		Thus the doctrine of reprobation does not present a picture of people who want to be rid of sin, or to repent of sin, or to be saved from sin, if it were not for an intransigent God saying, "No, I have decreed not to allow you to do so." That is not the picture.
		Clearly, in the case of neither the reprobate nor the elect does God's purpose conflict with or remove their responsibility to receive the gospel.
	www.freepres.org /pamphlet_details_print.asp?election (4912 words)

	The Place of Reprobation in the Preaching of the Gospel
		Both election and reprobation are parts of predestination; and this again is part of the counsel of God in the full sense of the word as it pertains to all things.
		In this sense, reprobation is a divine necessity.
		In all this, the reprobate serve for the glorification of the elect.
	www.prca.org /pamphlets/pamphlet_50.html (5433 words)

	Supralapsarianism and Infralapsarianism by Herman Bavinck
		Reprobation cannot be explained as an act of God's justice, for the first sinful deed at any rate was permitted by God's sovereignty.
		Reprobation would then become dependent upon bare foreknowledge, i.e., upon man; man's sinful deeds would then become the final and deepest cause of reprobation; hence, in order to avoid this error the decree of reprobation was placed immediately after the fall.
		Moreover, here on earth we should not conceive of election and reprobation as two straight and parallel lines; on the contrary, in the unbeliever there is much that is not the result of reprobation, and in the believer there is much that should not be ascribed to election.
	www.the-highway.com /Bavinck_predestination2.html (4428 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Does the reprobation of some men belong to God? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Further, if God reprobates any man, it would be necessary for reprobation to have the same relation to the reprobates as predestination has to the predestined.
		Reprobation, however, is not the cause of what is in the present--namely, sin; but it is the cause of abandonment by God.
		Hence, when it is said that the reprobated cannot obtain grace, this must not be understood as implying absolute impossibility: but only conditional impossibility: as was said above (19, 3), that the predestined must necessarily be saved; yet a conditional necessity, which does not do away with the liberty of choice.
	www.newadvent.org /summa/102303.htm (656 words)

	Reprobation
		So that though the condemnation of the reprobate is unavoidable, yet the necessity of it is so far from making them mere machines or involuntary agents, that it does not in the least interfere with the rational freedom of their wills, nor serve to render them less inexcusable.
		(2) Nor are these vain with regard to the reprobate, for precept, reproof and exhortation may, if duly attended to, be a means of making them careful to adjust their moral, external conduct according to the rules of decency, justice and regularity, and thereby prevent much inconvenience to themselves and injury to society.
		Every created being (whether elect or reprobate matters not as to this point) is, as such, dependent on the Creator for all things, and, if dependent, ought to have recourse to Him, both in a way of supplication and Thanksgiving.
	www.pbministries.org /articles/miscellaneous/zanchius_01.htm (3772 words)

	Visitor comments - Calvinism (sovereign reprobation)
		Reprobation means that God sovereignly decrees the damnation of fallen angels and many fallen men to the praise of His glorious justice and power (Romans 3:8).
		Alongside this it must be said that election is the primary decree of God and reprobation is subordinate to it, and in a sense different, in that reprobation is not the cause of sin and unbelief in the way that election causes faith.
		The reprobate serve the salvation of the elect unwillingly as godless and thus are guilty and worthy of condemnation (Matthew 25:41-46).
	www.biblebell.org /visitors/julian1.html (2029 words)

	Sovereign Reprobation
		There is something concerning God's eternal decree of predestination, and particularly the decree of reprobation, which seems immediately to arouse the ire of man. Mention election or reprobation, and man closes his ears.
		Reprobation is that eternal will, good pleasure, or purpose of God according to which He determined that some of His moral, rational creatures would be cast into hell forever on account of their sins; and that this fact would serve the cause of Christ and redound to God's glory alone.
		The reprobate too must serve the purpose of God in the gathering and defending of the church of Christ.
	www.prca.org /pamphlets/pamphlet_44.html (2009 words)

	REPROBATION ASSERTED, Chapter 11
		Again, God may infallibly foresee that this reprobate, when he hath sinned, will be an unreasonable opposer of his own salvation, and may also determine to suffer him to sin and be thus unreasonable to the end.
		Not reprobation, but sin; if sin, then before he quarrel let him consider the case aright., where, in the result, he will find sin, being consented to by his voluntary mind, hath thus disabled him, and because, I say, it was sin by his voluntary consent that.
		There is a difference as to the management also; the reprobate is principal for the management of the grace he receiveth, but Jesus Christ is principal for the management of the grace the elect receiveth.
	www.reformed.org /books/bunyan/reprobation/reprobation_11.html (2408 words)

	Evils-Darkland.de - Das Metalportal
		Reprobation's history dates back to 1992 in Dolton, IL, when high school friends Rob Whitworth (guitar), Mike Rees (drums), and Jeremy James (bass and vocals) first jammed together in the thrash outfit V.I.G. (Violence is Golden).
		Eventually Mike Rees was reenlisted into the ranks on drums and Reprobation was reborn in the spring of 1994.
		The first new song written in this period was appropriately titled "Reprobation." Later in the year Jeremy decided to leave the band, and the band decided to carry on as a four piece with just one guitarist.
	www.evils-darkland.de /b_reprobation.htm (2425 words)

	"Reprobation Asserted" by John Bunyan - Introduction and Table of Contents
		No man could have been better qualified to write upon the subject of reprobation than Bunyan.—His extraordinary knowledge of, and fervent attachment to, the holy oracles, peculiarly fitted him with unwavering verity to display this doctrine of divine truth.
		He was incapable of any misrepresentation with a view of concealing what fallen reason might deem a deformity, or to render the doctrines of the cross palatable to mankind.
		All mankind agree in opinion, that there ever has been an elect, or good class of society; arid a reprobate, or worthless and bad class; varying in turpitude or in goodness to a great extent and in almost imperceptible degrees.
	www.the-highway.com /Reprobation_intro.html (697 words)

	Lecture 44 Reprobation
		Nor is this the true doctrine of reprobation, to wit: that the purpose or decree of reprobation is the procuring cause of the destruction of reprobates.
		But the reprobate He chooses to destroy, not for the sake of their destruction as an end, or from delight in it for its own sake; but He has determined to destroy them for the public good, since their foreseen sinfulness demanded it.
		That the reprobation and destruction of the sinner is not an end, in the sense that God delights in misery, and destroys sinners to gratify a thirst for destruction.
	wesley.nnu.edu /related_traditions/finney/systematic/lecture44.htm (6683 words)

	REPROBATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The reprobate among mankind are they who are to be lost, to be cast out from the presence of God, and the glory of his power for ever.
		God's glory required that men should be reprobated and damned simply in view of the fact, that they would sin and persist in rebellion; not that his glory required both their rebellion and damnation, in preference to their obedience and salvation.
		The existence of reprobates is indispensable to the existence of the elect, for they are often the parents of the elect; while they themselves are cast away in consequence of their rebellion, their children are often converted, sanctified, and saved.
	www.firesofrevival.com /is/is11.htm (6485 words)

	Reprobation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is evident from Scripture that the reprobate shall be condemned.
		Consequently the reprobate must, as corrupt, fruitless trees (or fruitful in evil only), be "hewn down and cast into the fire" (Matt.
		He need but slacken the reins of providential restraint and withhold the influence of saving grace, and apostate man will too soon, and too surely, of his own accord, "fall by his iniquity"; he will presently be, spiritually speaking, a felo de se, and, without any other efficiency, lay violent hands on his own soul.
	www.mbrem.com /calvinism/rprobate.htm (3651 words)

	Boyce's Abstract of Systematic Theology--Chapter 30
		THE doctrine of Election is intimately associated with and involves that of Reprobation.
		The doctrine of Reprobation is not affected by the scheme of either.
		The fourth point of Reprobation is the hardening some or all of the Rejected against the truth, and the confirmation of them in their sin.
	www.founders.org /library/boyce1/ch30.html (3945 words)

	CyberSaint® • Reprobation, Part 2
		In the first message, we discussed what reprobation really is. We also discussed many of the elements that lead up to the "state of reprobation" which is commonly discussed among Christians, but not in enough detail so that the discussion becomes fruitful.
		Corruption, in and of itself, is a reprobate (rejected and worthless) act, but it is an element on the path of "full blown reprobation).
		Reprobation, in and of itself, is not something that cannot be overcome.
	www.cybersaint.org /doctrinalapologetics/articles/reprobation2.php (3144 words)

	Election And Reprobation
		The reprobate cleave to their own self-interest as if it were the only possible good and this the only wise way to win it.
		The reprobate, let their profession of piety be as it may, have no heart to become holy as God is holy.
		To the reprobate it falls to stumble forever at the plain truths of God's word, and the plainer and the more precious the truth, the more grievous and fatal is their stumbling.
	www.matthew548.com /000524.html (6864 words)

	Catholic Predestination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Regarding the content of the resolve of Reprobation, a distinction is made between positive and negative Reprobation, according as the Divine resolve of Reprobation has for its object condemnation to the eternal punishment of hell, or exclusion from the Beatific Vision.
		Having regard to the reason for Reprobation, a distinction is made between conditioned and unconditioned (absolute) Reprobation, insofar as the Divine resolve of Reprobation is dependent on, or independent of the prevision of future demerits.
		In practice, the unconditioned negative Reprobation of the Thomists involves the same result as the unconditioned positive Reprobation of the heretical Predestinarians, since outside Heaven and Hell there is no third final state.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ120.HTM (1723 words)

	Objections to CALVINISM as it is: CHAPTER 3--Election and Reprobation
		But, although the fall is presupposed to their reprobation, it will appear that the former was not the reason of the latter, if we recollect that those who were chosen to salvation were exactly in the same situation.
		If there was sin in the reprobate, there was sin, also, in the elect; and we must, therefore, resolve their opposite allotment into the will of God, who gives and withholds his favor according to his pleasure.
		And as to the reprobates, the Gospel is unavoidably a source of death unto death.
	www.gospeltruth.net /foster_on_cal/otc_3.htm (12003 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Predestination
		The very spirit of the Bible should have sufficed to deter Calvin from a false explanation of Rom., ix, and his successor Beza from the exegetical maltreatment of I Pet., ii, 7—8.
		Hence the earlier partisans of absolute predestination never denied that their theory compelled them to assume for the wicked a parallel, negative reprobation — that is, to assume that, though not positively predestined to hell, yet they are absolutely predestined not to go to heaven (cf.
		While it was easy for the Thomists to bring this view into logical harmony with their prœmotio physica, the few Molinists were put to straits to harmonize negative reprobation with their scientia media.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12378a.htm (5783 words)

	Reprobation
		Ac 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
		One was blessed for eternal life and the other was rejected, a reprobate.
		The doctrine of reprobation is should not hinder or discourage anyone but rejoice in election.
	www.sounddoctrine.net /Nick/Reprobation.htm (2076 words)

	THE CAUSE OF REPROBATION Isaiah 65:2-7 - Radio Message
		There are in this world vessels of mercy and vessels of wrath, sheep and goats, elect sinners and reprobate sinners.
		However, none of the elect will ever be saved apart from redemption, grace, and faith; and no one will ever be damned without first filling up the measure of wrath by their own willful transgressions.
		Nothing on this earth can explain what is going on in the world around us, except this - We are living in a reprobate age, in a generation under the judgment of God (Rom.1:25-28; II Thess.
	www.freegrace.net /dfradio/dfrh602.htm (532 words)

	Cartas de Santiago
		In election and reprobation, both the awesome justice, and the amazing mercy, of God are shown in all their fullness.
		A.H. Armstrong, for instance, argues that “the doctrine [of predestination and reprobation as taught by Augustine especially, and later modified and nuanced by Calvin and the “Calvinists”] is intolerable, and no appeal to mystery can justify it...
		Finally, for Calvin, election was a cause for joy and delight; reprobation was a cause for a serious consideration of the justice of God, and a humility in the face of things which are too deep for man to consider.
	cartadesantiago.blogspot.com (11649 words)

	REPROBATION ASSERTED, Contents
		Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded – Romans 11:7.
		Whether to be Reprobated be the same with being Appointed beforehand unto Eternal Condemnation?
		Whether any under Eternal Reprobation have Just Cause to Quarrel with God for not Electing of them?
	www.reformed.org /books/bunyan/reprobation (194 words)

	Reprobation Asserted, John Bunyan \| The Reformed Reader
		O R, The Doctrine of Eternal Election and Reprobation
		The difference between being reprobated and being appointed to
		condemnation; reprobation not the cause of sin or of condemnation.
	www.reformedreader.org /rbb/bunyan/reprobation/toc.htm (208 words)

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