Supralapsarian View

Part Three
Theology Proper: 21 THE ETERNAL PURPOSE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

This is the extreme or hyper-Calvinistic view. Supra is a preposition meaning above. This view places the decree of election above that of the fall. It presents God’s purpose in the following perspective:

1. The decree to save some and damn others.

2. The decree to create in order to have those beings who are to be saved and damned.

3. The decree to permit the fall of man.

4. The decree to provide salvation for the elect.

The view holds that God not only elected some to be saved, but also elected others to be lost. It asks us to believe that in the mind of God was the concept of a company of people saved and another lost before (in logical order, of course) ever there was the concept of their being created, and that the fall and redemption were simply means of accomplishing that end. And by placing the decree of election ahead of that to provide salvation the inescapable conclusion must be that Christ died only for the elect. Calvin did not hold this extreme view.

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