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• Predestination and Free WillControversies

  Predestination and free will is a debate over whether salvation depends on God's election or on the human response. Calvinism, followed by Presbyterians, and the Arminian-Wesleyan tradition, followed by Methodists, Holiness churches, and Full Gospel churches, explain the question differently.

• The Bondage of the WillDoctrine & Theology

  The Bondage of the Will is a 1525 book by Martin Luther refuting Erasmus's On Free Will, and the name also refers to the position it argues. It holds that the will of fallen humanity is bound by sin and cannot choose salvation of itself, and that salvation depends entirely on the grace of God.

• PelagianismHeresies & Cults

  Pelagianism refers to the teachings of the early fifth-century monk Pelagius and his followers. It denied original sin (the doctrine that Adam's sin is passed on to all people), emphasized human free will and moral responsibility, and was condemned as heresy by several councils of the ancient church.

• SoteriologyDoctrine & Theology

  Soteriology is the branch of Christian theology concerned with how God saves people who are under sin. It encompasses such topics as grace and faith, justification and sanctification, and predestination and free will.

• Leipzig DebateHistory

  The Leipzig Debate was a public theological disputation held in the summer of 1519 in Leipzig, Germany, between Johann Eck, professor of theology at the University of Ingolstadt, and Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt, professors of theology at the University of Wittenberg. The authority of the pope and of church councils became the central issue, and the debate is regarded as an important turning point in the early Reformation.

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Verses in the King James Version 23, showing 6

• Exodus 21:5

  And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

• Leviticus 22:18

  Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the Lord for a burnt offering;

• Leviticus 22:21

  And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.

• Leviticus 22:23

  Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

• Leviticus 23:38

  Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.

• Numbers 15:3

  And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the Lord, of the herd, or of the flock:

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