Editing Predestination in Calvinism (section)

===Reprobation: active decree, passive foreordination===
Calvinists emphasise the ''active'' nature of God's decree to choose those foreordained to eternal wrath, yet at the same time the ''passive'' nature of that foreordination.

This is possible because most Calvinists hold to an [[Supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism|infralapsarian]] view of God's decree. In that view, God, before Creation, in his mind, first decreed that the [[Fall of Man]] would take place, before decreeing [[Unconditional election|election]] and [[reprobation]]. So God actively chooses whom to condemn, but because he knows they will have a [[Total depravity|sinful nature]], the way he foreordains them is to simply let them be – this is sometimes called "preterition."<ref>[[Robert L. Reymond]], ''A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith'' (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1998), p. 345.</ref> Therefore, this foreordination to wrath is passive in nature (unlike God's active predestination of his elect where he needs to overcome their sinful nature).