The God Who Says Yes

How predestination reveals the expansive heart of divine love

Stefan Lochner, Last Judgement, c. 1435. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne. © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61455800

Surprisingly, the word predestination occurs just six times in the Bible. For one of those heavy theological topics, that’s not many. It is also a fascinating word.

In Greek, the w…