Eastern Catholic theology rejects strict double predestination and affirms that God sincerely wills the salvation of all people. Human free will is real and significant: salvation involves genuine cooperation (synergism) between divine grace and human response. God's foreknowledge does not override or negate human freedom.

While accepting the Catholic Church's defined teachings on grace (which reject Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism), Eastern Catholic tradition emphasizes the uncoerced nature of the human response to God's invitation. Eastern theologians tend to interpret God's election and foreknowledge in light of God's foreknowledge of human choices, rather than as absolute divine decrees preceding and determining those choices. Calvinistic double predestination is entirely foreign to this tradition.