II.

Single Predestination

Single predestination is the less severe form of the teaching. It is based on the experience of the presence of God and his love, and on the concurrent understanding that God grants the gift of his presence as an act of sheer grace. In order to emphasize that God's gift is independently willed by him and is in no sense a response to some human act, some Christians have asserted that their relation to God depends only on God and on God's eternal decree established before the foundation of the world.

This point of view is implied only twice in the New Testament, in Romans 8 and Ephresians 1. “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son...And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified” (Romans 8:29-30). These verses imply single predestination, because they concern only predestination to life with God.