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Justin Peters on Election & predestination

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST / DISPENSATIONAL
READ IN A PRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Unconditional — grounded in God's free choice

if you were to ask me if I believe in the Doctrines of Grace or election, I would confidently reply "Yes" because it is clearly and unmistakably taught in Scripture.
Statement of Faith, Election ↗

THE POSITION

God chooses to redeem some of mankind for Himself and as a gift to the Son, and that sovereign choice does not cancel human accountability. He argues the doctrine is commonly misread as God keeping people out of heaven, and reframes it: all are willingly running to hell and God mercifully plucks some from a justly deserved end. What makes the choice unconditional rather than conditional is not that definition, which an Arminian could sign, but three things around it — he affirms the Doctrines of Grace by name, he holds that fallen man cannot even seek God, and nowhere does he ground election in foreseen faith.

SCRIPTURE
JOHN 6:37 · BSB

37 Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

16 OTHERS HOLD THIS

AquinasAugustineVoddie BauchamCalvinJonathan EdwardsTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurGavin OrtlundJohn OwenJohn PiperR.C. SproulCharles Haddon SpurgeonWestminster ConfessionZwingli
Conditional — grounded in foreseen faithJACOBUS ARMINIUS · CHRYSOSTOM · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WESLEY
Affirmed, held alongside real human responsibility, treated as non-dividingJOSH HOWERTON
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Discernment evangelist whose Clouds Without Water seminar — grown from his Th.M. thesis on Benny Hinn — is the best-known evangelical critique of the Word of Faith movement, and since 2026 senior pastor of a church plant outside Billings, Montana.

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"Justin Peters on Election & predestination", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/peters/election (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/peters/election).

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