Election teaches that salvation comes from the Lord.

[Carbon]

Ephesians 1:3-13.​

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.


Paul makes it pretty clear in verse 4 that God chose. even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,

He predestined His chosen, verse 5. he predestined us for adoption

He gave in verse 6. to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

He forgave verse 7. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,

He lavished grace verses 7-8. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

He made His will known in verse 9. making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

He purposed verse 9. according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

He included verse 13. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

He marked us and sealed us with the Holy Spirit. verse 13. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,


And what is of the utmost important is, that these are all done in Christ. Which is why we must be regenerated first and placed in Christ by God before we can believe or receive any of this.

 

[Josheb]

Even if we didn't have the decisive text of Ephesians, reason tells us the word "elect" necessitates salvation coming from the Lord. It's not like a poll is taken in any democratic sense where God asked a bunch of creatures to vote for whether or not a person should be elected. The only one voting is God! The synergist appeal to the sinner choosing and then God conditioning His choice one that choice is not an election. If salvation is necessarily predicated on the sinner's choice then God is not electing or selecting anyone; He is simply acknowledging His dependence on the sinner, His obligation to select the salvation choosing sinner. Likewise, the sinner-choosing interpretation of the cited text is nowhere stated in the text. The passage must be read inferentially and the sinner's choice invented. The audience affiliation, "us," must be ignored or changed, made different from who Paul explicitly identifies as that "us;" "the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus." Unregenerate non-believers are not saints, nor are they faithful to Jesus. They are the antithesis of that!

Who did God choose? the saints
Who did God predestine? the saints
Who did God bless? the saints


....and on and on... the answer is always the saints.

 

[fastfredy0]

Election (and logic) teaches that salvation comes from the Lord.​

God could not foreknow that things would be, unless he had decreed they should be. He cannot “look into the future”, so to speak, to find out what will happen for that would be knowledge acquired from learning; God is immutable and omniscient and therefore cannot learn. Furthermore, from nothing nothing comes and since before creation nothing existed, all knowledge must come from God and the source of His knowledge is His wisdom and ability to cause all things. If God's knowledge of his creatures were derived from the creatures by the impression of anything upon him, as there is upon us, he could not know from eternity, because from eternity there was no actual existence of anything but himself; and therefore there could not be any images shot out from anything, because there was not anything in being but God. Stephen Charnock