The Maronite Church, in keeping with Catholic doctrine, teaches that God sincerely wills the salvation of every person and that no one is predestined to damnation. Salvation requires the genuine cooperation of human free will with divine grace, in a relationship of synergism. Strict double predestination is rejected.

The Maronite theological tradition inherited the Antiochene emphasis on human freedom and responsibility from the Greek and Syriac Fathers. St. Ephrem and other Syriac writers strongly affirmed the dignity of human freedom as the basis of moral life and the seriousness of moral choice. These emphases were reinforced by the Western Catholic tradition absorbed through Latinization, which likewise rejected Calvinist predestinarianism. The Church's teaching follows the Second Council of Orange (529) in affirming that grace is necessary but does not nullify free will.