THE LAPSARIAN CONTROVERSY

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

Theologians, in attempting to arrive at the correct view on the logical order of the decrees have divided into two main camps, the Calvinistic and the Arminian. Each of these camps has its own subdivisions. The controversy centered around the question of whether the decree of election preceded or followed the decree to permit the lapse, that is, the fall of man, and hence the name, Lapsarian.

Since the doctrine of election will be considered in detail in the study of Soteriology, we will content ourselves at this point to state simply the order of the decrees at which different schools of thought have arrived and the implications of these several views.

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