"Predestination embraces all the events, persons, things, and conditions utilized by God in fulfilling His determinate counsel, bringing them all to pass at the time and place eternally determined; and thus it includes all things without exception, because all things are contained in His one eternal and immutable mind. To use but one simple illustration:
John Doe's name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, which was so written "before the foundation of the world." John Doe, and his full and complete salvation, then, is embraced in God's eternal counsel. The entire linage of individual men and women who procreated the prodigy of John Doe from Adam and Eve to John Doe's birth; their meeting, the place and time of each one to exist, the circumstances and the events that guided and directed their existence through the ages, etc., must have also been embraced in God's eternal counsel. One link being aborted would have unraveled the whole, and John Doe would have never existed, in spite of his name being written in the Book of Life "from the foundation of the world." And I speak of only one such person! Predestination is not a narrow and limiting concept! It must embrace all things." — Unknown
John Doe's name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, which was so written "before the foundation of the world." John Doe, and his full and complete salvation, then, is embraced in God's eternal counsel. The entire linage of individual men and women who procreated the prodigy of John Doe from Adam and Eve to John Doe's birth; their meeting, the place and time of each one to exist, the circumstances and the events that guided and directed their existence through the ages, etc., must have also been embraced in God's eternal counsel. One link being aborted would have unraveled the whole, and John Doe would have never existed, in spite of his name being written in the Book of Life "from the foundation of the world." And I speak of only one such person! Predestination is not a narrow and limiting concept! It must embrace all things." — Unknown
