It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved. Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in relation to this last and definitive decision. We are not free to decide and choose to be damned.
Jacques EllulWe have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.
Jacques EllulIn reality this is the very reverse of what we are told about the biblical God, who opens up freedom for us, who lets us make our own history, who goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures that we concoct.
Jacques EllulTechnical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
Jacques Ellul