Do you believe predestination is a biblical teaching?
I am curious as to what others Christians think of this subject. Some Christians believe Paul is teaching in predestination:
Ephesians: 1:3-5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.
I heard a Pastor once say that what Paul meant was that we were predestined before the foundation of the world to be HOLY and without blame when we stand before the Lord. But he didn't believe that the Lord Jesus predestinated us to be saved. I'm not sure that I really bought into that... what do you think Paul meant?