#217-EP17 ~ What is the teaching of ELECTION?
Election correctly defined: God’s eternal, gracious, and certain plan to ultimately have a people who are His by personal faith. This doctrine of election taught in the Bible does not teach that God predestined certain people for salvation and others for everlasting condemnation.
For more information about all this go to my article on our website– 4Us2UsMinistries.com — Election: What should we believe about this?
Now we continue with Ephesians 1:5 —
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
For more information about all this go to my article on our website. –Predestination: Does God predetermine who’s going to hell?
Some people certainly think so! I graduated from a seminary where this was taught. Every true “Calvinist” believes that God has already decided on this matter. I didn’t fall for this false teaching, but nearly every other student on the campus did. In case you don’t know, John Calvin [born in France in 1509 and died in Switzerland in 1564] and his followers taught that God preselected souls for salvation and others for damnation. He also believed that there’s nothing any individual person can do during their mortal lifetime to alter their eternal destination. Either you were chosen for Heaven or you were chosen for hell. It appeared that other classmates of mine had not studied this subject through and that they trusted their professors, assuming they knew what they were talking about. Yes, the professors there could quote Scripture to “prove” their position, but people quote Scripture about a lot of things, usually out of context, that prove to be false.
So, what are you going to believe about this teaching? What do the Scriptures really teach about this?
Romans 8:28-30
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. What a wonderful promise we have in this passage to every believer!
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [PROORIZO = predetermine] to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. [Emphasis added]
What is the context of this passage? Is this addressed to unbelievers or believers? Answer: Believers! And ONLY believers! No unbelievers are in view. We see this clearly stated at the beginning of the letter.
We’ll continue with this study on the next video.
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