R.C. Sproul

He's going to teach us all about predestination.

So we had about 250 students assembled, I guess, that night in the class.

And I started the class by reading the opening lines of Chapter 3 of the Westminster Confession.

I don't have them down verbatim, but I can give you basically what it says there.

It starts off by saying something like this, that God has or does from all eternity immutably and sovereignly ordain whatsoever comes to pass.

Common.

I'll say it again.

God does sovereignly, immutably, ordain, whatsoever comes to pass, comma.

I stopped right there at the comma, and I said, now here's this statement.

It says that from all eternity, God does freely and sovereignly and immutably ordain every single thing that comes to pass.

How many of you believe that?

I mean, this is a Presbyterian seminary, and 200 hands went up in the air proudly wearing the badge of their conviction of the sovereignty, going, well, we believe that.

Fifty hands didn't go up.

I said, okay, how many of you don't believe it?

I said, it's okay.

Nobody's taking down names, and you're not going to get in any trouble.

We're not going to have a heresy trial here and get out the matches, burn you at the stake.

I said, let's be honest.

How many of you don't believe that?

About 50 guys raised their hand.