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 that He is bringing to perfection through this world order of events.” (Page 205) Luther strongly agrees with predestination. In The Bondage of the Will Luther states: “Therefore there is also no will, or “free will,” to turn in another direction, or to desire anything else, while the influence of the Spirit and the grace of God remain in man." (Section XXV) Luther believes that free will cannot exist because we are either slaves to evil/original sin or forced to do good by God's grace. This irresistible nature of grace or sin is what guides Luther's faith in predestination: “For if we believe it to be true, that God foreknows and foreordains all things; that He can neither be deceived nor hindered in His foreknowledge and predestination; and that nothing can come to pass except according to His Will (which reason itself is forced to confess); even according to the testimony of reason itself, there can be no "free will" - in man, - in the angel, - or in any creature! CLXVII) Luther believes that God cannot have free will to maintain his foreknowledge and predestination of events. Calvin agrees with predestination based on the foreknowledge of God. In Institutes of Religion Calvin states: “We, indeed, attribute both foreknowledge and predestination to God; but let's 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, under his eye; that for him there is neither past nor future, but all things are present...... middle of paper ......the destination of our life is directly connected to his power and foreknowledge and does not mean that Christ's sacrifice and the sacraments become useless, just 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. Talk about 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 slavery of the will. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1957. Print.