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Positive-Double-Predestination

God positively decrees the damnation of the reprobate as an end in itself — the sharper supralapsarian inflection beyond what III.7 states.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Reprobation is Preterition-And-Just-Condemnation. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Reprobation.

The Decree of Reprobation 1645 Does God positively decree the damnation of the reprobate, or merely pass them by?

Other positions on Reprobation

Preterition-And-Just-Condemnation WCF God passes by the non-elect and ordains them to dishonour and wrath *for their sin* (WCF III.7); a positive decree as to election, a just condemnation as to its execution. Single-Predestination Affirms election but denies any decree of reprobation — a minority view in seventeenth-century Reformed theology, not entertained by the Standards. Conditional-On-Foreseen-Unbelief Reprobation is grounded in foreseen unbelief — the Arminian position rejected by III.5–7.

Cite this position

Study Reformed, “Positive-Double-Predestination” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/god_decree/reprobation/positive_double/.

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