Unconditional Election

[Carbon]

Because of Adam's transgression, his descendants enter the world as guilty, lost sinners. As fallen creatures, they have no desire to have fellowship with God. God is holy, just, and good; whereas they are sinful, perverse, and corrupt. Left to their own choices, they inevitably follow the god of this world and do the will of their father, the devil. Consequently, men have cut themselves off from the Lord of heaven and have forfeited all rights to His love and favor. It would have been perfectly just for God to have left all men in their sin and misery and have shown mercy to none. God was under no obligation whatsoever to provide salvation for anyone. It's in this context that the Bible sets forth the doctrine of election.

The doctrine of election declares that God, before the foundation of the world, chose certain individuals from among fallen humanity (Adam's posterity) to be objects of His undeserved favor. There, and these only, He purposed to save. Of course, God could have chosen to save all men (He obviously has the power and authority to do so) or He could have chosen to save none, as He is not obligated to show mercy to anyone. Instead, what He chose was to save some and exclude others.
And His eternal choice of those particular sinners unto salvation was not based on any foreseen act or response on the part of those selected. But was based solely on His own good pleasure and sovereign will.
Thus, election was not determined by or conditioned upon anything that men would so, but resulted entirely from God's self-determined purpose.


Those who were not chosen to salvation were passed by and left to their own evil devices and choices.

Calvinism's "U" in TULIP.

Thoughts?

 

[Carbon]

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. Pslm 33:12.

 

[John Bauer]

... and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance (Ps 33:12).

But I thought he loved the whole world!

 

[makesends]

Reading this, I'm thinking: It is a simple logic that sees from God's point-of-view, that he never intended to save anyone, but those whom he created for that special purpose. That simple logic is about God, and doesn't ask which people he will save. God will do exactly what he set out to do.

Life is not about us. Unconditional Election is not about us.