Do Calvinists believe that Heavenly Rewards are predestined?
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Calvinists generally believe that our works and resulting rewards are also predetermined from eternity.
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (NIV Ephesians 2:10)
However, the absence of our will is never included in the concept, either in receiving Christ or in doing good works; rather we are predestined to will all those things under God's influence.
To what level our will exists and in what sense we have 'a will', is a little more debatable and Calvinists can vary in this to some degree. In any case, it is usually understood that we are 'not robots' without a will, but that both our will and God's are united according to his eternal plan. In fact when he saves us he frees our will to do his.
for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. (NIV Philippians 2:13)
There are books devoted on the subject, for example Martin Luther's The Bondage of Will.
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