In Loraine Boettner's book The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, Boettner describes predestination as: "Predestination teaches that from eternity God has had a unified plan or purpose which he perfects through this world order of events. » (P. 205) Luther strongly agreed with predestination. In The Servitude of Will Luther states: "So that there is here no will, or 'free will,' to turn in any other direction, or to desire anything else, while the influence of God's Spirit and grace remain in place. the man. (Section XXV) Luther believes that free will cannot exist because we are either slaves to evil/original sin or we are compelled to good by the grace of God. This compelling nature of grace or sin is what motivates Luther’s belief in predestination: “For if we believe this to be true, that God knows and ordains all things beforehand; that he can neither be deceived nor hindered in his foreknowledge and predestination; and that nothing can happen without His Will (which reason itself is obliged to confess); then, even according to the testimony of reason itself, there can be no "Free will" - in man, - in the angel, - or in any creature! (Sec. CLXVII) Luther believes that God cannot have free will in order to maintain his foreknowledge and predestination of events. Calvin agrees with predestination based on God's foreknowledge. In Institutes of Religion, Calvin states: “We indeed ascribe to God both foreknowledge and predestination; but we say that it is absurd to subordinate the latter to the former. When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things have always been and always continue before his eyes; that as far as He knows, there is no past or future, but all things are present... middle of paper ... the destination of our lives is directly related to His power and foreknowledge and does not mean that Christ's sacrifice and the sacraments become unnecessary, only part of the plan. Works Cited Boettner, Loraine. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1936. Print. Moffat, James. Predestination. New York: Loizeaux, nd Print. Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. The Protestant Reformation. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Print. Erasmus, Desiderius and Martin Luther. Discourse on free will. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Print. McNeill, John T. and Ford Lewis Tr. Battles. Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion. Phil. : Westminster, 1960. Print.Neal, Gregory S., Rev. "John Calvin: The Church and Predestination." (1997): n. Print. Luther, Martin, JI Packer and OR Johnston. The servitude of the will. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1957. Print.