The Protestant claim that God has already chosen who will be saved, creating anxiety over whether one is elect.
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predestination
The Protestant claim that God has already chosen who will be saved, creating anxiety over whether one is elect.
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Calvinist double predestination turns hard work, wealth accumulation, and non-consumption into evidence that God favors a person.
Weber's account says predestination creates a duty to consider oneself chosen, because doubt signals insufficient faith and imperfect grace.
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"...go to heaven and who will go to hell, okay? Double predestination. It's already been decided, guys. And how do you know? If, well,..."
"Okay? So you can only invest the money. All right, and as you can understand, the merchant oligarchies love this because now they're taking..."
"...So what the Protestants said is no. Access to heaven is predestination. In other words, at the beginning of time, God has already decided..."
"...And this is what he has to say. So far as predestination was not reinterpreted, toned down, or fundamentally abandoned, okay? So remember, double..."
"And to combat all doubts as temptations of the devil, since lack of self -confidence is the result of insufficient faith and hence of..."
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