Summary
Note: This summary of the above article was produced using AI-assisted tools to aid reader orientation and may contain errors.
“Reprobation is that aspect of predestination by which God determines to condemn the nonelect,” serving as the “necessary corollary to the doctrine of election.” The article distinguishes “preterition”—God’s “sovereign choice to leave certain sinners to their sinful choices”—from “reprobation,” God’s “active determination to condemn.” Scripturally, Jesus shows the Father has “hidden these things from the wise” (Matt 11:25–27), and Paul describes the wicked as “vessels of wrath prepared for destruction” (Rom 9:22-23). Though election and preterition are “grounded in divine sovereignty,” condemnation “is grounded in divine justice and the reality of human responsibility,” based on “the sin and ill-desert of the sinners themselves.”