John Calvin defines predestination as "the enternal decree of God, by which he determined what he wished to make of every person. For he does not create everyone in the same condition, but ordains eternal life for some and eternal damnation for others". Calvin's predestinarianism should be regarded as a reflection upon the data of human omnipotence. The primary funcion of the doctrine of predestination is to explain why some individuals respond to the gospel, and others do not. It is an attempt to explain the variety of human respondses to grace. The followers of Calvin, called Calvinist, believed in divine control. Theodore Beza believed in predestination and through him it assumed the status of a controlling principle. Through Beza's development the doctrine of "limited atonement" came into play and the Calvinist came up with the mnemonic TULIP called the "Five Point Calvinism".
             Arminianism came from the man Jakob Arminius, who acted against the Reformed doctrine of particular redemtion. For him, Christ had died for all, not just the elect. Where Synod the Dort understood predestination to be an individual matter, the Arminians understood it corporately. Despite the more calvinist views of George Whitefield, Arminina ideas wereforcefully sated within Methodism bye Charles Wesley.
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