Facts : 1 1 Protestantism 1.1 Comparison between Protestants 1.2 Lutheranism 1.3 Calvinism 1.4 Arminianism 1.5 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Protestantism Comparison between Protestants This table summarizes the classical views of three different Protestant beliefs
Facts : 2 Lutheranism Lutherans do not believe that there are certain people that are predestined to salvation, but salvation is predestined for those who seek God
Facts : 3 Lutherans believe Christians should be assured that they are among the predestined
Facts : 4 However, they disagree with those who make predestination the source of salvation rather than Christ s suffering, death, and resurrection
Facts : 5 Unlike some Calvinists, Lutherans do not believe in a predestination to damnation
Facts : 6 Instead, Lutherans teach eternal damnation is a result of the unbeliever s sins, rejection of the forgiveness of sins, and unbelief
Facts : 7 Martin Luther s attitude towards predestination is set out in his On the Bondage of the Will, published in 1525
Facts : 8 This publication by Luther was in response to the published treatise by Desiderius Erasmus in 1524 known as On Free Will
Facts : 9 Luther based his views on Ephesians 2:8-10, which says: For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast
Facts : 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them
Facts : 11 Calvinism The Belgic Confession of 1561 affirmed that God delivers and preserves from perdition all whom he, in his eternal and unchangeable council, of mere goodness hath elected in Christ Jesus our Lord, without respect to their works (Article XVI)
Facts : 12 Calvinists believe that God picked those who he will save and bring with him to Heaven before the world was created
Facts : 13 John Calvin thought people who were saved could never lose their salvation and the elect (those God saved) would know they were saved because of their actions
Facts : 14 In this common, loose sense of the term, to affirm or to deny predestination has particular reference to the Calvinist doctrine of unconditional election
Facts : 15 In the Calvinist interpretation of the Bible, this doctrine normally has only pastoral value related to the assurance of salvation and the absolution of salvation by grace alone
Facts : 16 However, the philosophical implications of the doctrine of