Philosophical questions around Predestination

• Foreknowledge- the idea that God knows the entire future
• Justification by faith- People get to heaven because of faith, not works
• Sola fide is Latin for "by faith alone"
• The Inconsistent triad raises the question as to why God would create beings destined to go to hell
• Would a loving God be capable of sending people to eternal punishment, and can God still love those in hell
• John Hick's Replica Theory

  1. A person disappears, an exact replica is in America, it can be believed that this is the same person
  2. A person dies and leaves a corpse, a replica is in America, it can be believed that this is the same person
  3. A person dies and leaves a corpse, a replica is in a new world (heaven), it can be believed that this is the same person
• Hick holds the idea that we just keep going and living after death
• If universal predestination to heaven is true, then what was the point in atonement
• Is God outside space and time, just watching everything that happens without being able to meaningfully interfere