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===Double predestination=== {{further|Predestination in Calvinism#Double predestination}} Double predestination, or the double decree, is the doctrine that God actively [[reprobates]], or decrees damnation of some, as well as salvation for those whom he has elected. During the Protestant Reformation John Calvin held this double predestinarian <!-- not a typo or spelling error, just a very obscure word --> view:{{sfn|James|1998|p=30}}{{sfn|Trueman|1994|p=69}} "By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death."{{sfn|Calvin|1845|loc=3.21.7}} Gottschalk of Orbais taught double predestination explicitly in the ninth century,{{sfn|Levering|2011|p=70}} and [[Gregory of Rimini]] in the fourteenth.{{sfn|James|1998|p=147}} Some trace this doctrine to statements made by Augustine in the early fifth century that on their own also seem to teach double predestination, but in the context of his other writings it is not clear whether he held this view. In ''[[The City of God]]'', Augustine describes all of humanity as being predestinated for salvation (i.e., the city of God) or damnation (i.e., the earthly city of man); but Augustine also held that all human beings were born "reprobate" but "need not necessarily remain" in that state of reprobation.<ref>Augustine, The City of God (New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, 1950), pp. 478β479.</ref>{{sfn|James|1998|p=102}}
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