The Doctrine of Predestination and Election Predestination and Election The doctrine of predestination and election is often debated outside the realm of the historical biblical context. As a result, predestination turns out to be another form of replacement theology where Old covenant ethnic Israel's salvific role is set aside for the "orthodoxy" of reformed theology. Recently, Bryan E. Lewis wrote an excellent paper addressing the problem of this method of interpretation. For preterists, it should be obvious that the historical context must take precedence over one's theological or traditional views, otherwise, what is the point of even studying the preterist view. It ...