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Some Christians have worked to make doctrines. I have seen concepts. What is the difference between a doctrine and a concept? A doctrine may have been a fix set of beliefs. Someone created a doctrine, and tried to make the Bible work around or with their doctrine. A concept is an idea or a thing. John Calvin talked about the Doctrine of Predestination. I see a Spiritual Concept of Predestination which there may have been something to it, and given we get it most right, it fits with understandings in the Bible, and we may be able to see how it has worked by observing humanity. In general, given someone made a doctrine, or referenced the Spiritual......there may have been something to it. God is a creator. Did they get it right? In Luke 20:9-19, we have the Parable of the Tenant Farmers. Mankind is like God's Vineyard. The Tenant Farmers were teachers of religious law. Given the teachers of religious law were off, everyone else would be off? Given the teachers of religious law were not doing the right things, or were corrupt, or hated God, that may mean that many men lived and died in a Matrix of Lies. They lived and died with false perceptions about God, and themselves, and may have had a hard time finding God. God showed me that through space and time, he may have had pieces like on a game board. Through space and time, he may have planned for some people to help bring the rest back. These men and women were Predetermined. It is not that the rest of mankind could not have found God. It was more that they were in a Matrix of Lies. What is an example of a Matrix of Lies or False Perceptions today? I am a certified Social Studies Teacher. In an Introduction to Education class, someone may have learned that there were seven Educational Philosophies. These include Essentialism, Perennialism, Progressivism, Social Reconstructionism, Existentialism, Behaviorism, Constructivism, Conservatism, and Humanism. Which one of those helps people find and understand God? Any of them? In two years of Education Classes, I was mostly taught about Progressive Education like John Dewey. In Progressive Education, teachers are taught to teach to culture and teach to the students. Given there were ungodly, or pagan, or other negative influences in culture, a teacher would teach to that culture. Progressive Education may have cemented in bad cultural traits and habits, made selfish or feel entitled, and hurt people from finding God. Education that may have been more constructive towards someone finding and growing in Faith with God may have been education focus more on Enduring Spiritual Themes more like a Classical or Perennial Education. There have been Enduring Themes in the Bible as it applies to mankind and history, the present, and the future. To see more someone may need to understand Enduring Spiritual Themes. Progressive Education would be faulty in working to understand God and creation. Progressive Education has created a Matrix of False Perspectives. People who have been taught to think like that may have had a harder time understanding God. John Calvin's Doctrine of Predestination lacks in an understanding of Freewill and The Parable of the Tenant Farmers. The Concept of Predestination.....there may have been something to it. What do you see?