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Elect according to the foreknowledge of God

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To suggest that God pre-selects His elect is ''wicked''. You are teaching the lost that my God is wicked.

To deny God does pre select people to Salvation is wicked. God has chosen some to Salvation from the beginning 2 Thess 2:13

13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

The word chosen haireō here means:

to take for oneself, to prefer, choose

prefer means:

to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose
 
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God wills that all be saved 1 Tim 2:4.

Yes all His Elect. He specifies that in 2 Tim 2:10

10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
 
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To deny God does pre select people to Salvation is wicked. God has chosen some to Salvation from the beginning 2 Thess 2:13

13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

The word chosen haireō here means:

to take for oneself, to prefer, choose

prefer means:

to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose

Please explain to me how cherry picking some for salvation is not wicked.

Pretend you are explaining this to your five year old grandchild (who God told you is not chosen)....go...floor is yours....
 
Please explain to me how cherry picking some for salvation is not wicked.

Pretend you are explaining this to your five year old grandchild (who God told you is not chosen)....go...floor is yours....
Im not making any xtra explanations to you, you pay no attention to the explanations I have already provided.
 
Im not making any xtra explanations to you, you pay no attention to the explanations I have already provided.

I do, that is why I call it wicked heresy. False teaching.

You cherry pick a few verses and teach that God is wicked. Terrible.
 
Election Believed and taught in the OT !

Ps 65:4

4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

The word choosest is the hebrew word bachar:

to choose, elect, decide for

a) (Qal) to choose

b) (Niphal) to be chosen

c) (Pual) to be chosen, selected

And this being chosen is what causetst one's approach in faith, hence the faith of God's Elect. The word causets is the word qarab:

to come near, approach, enter into, draw near

a) (Qal) to approach, draw near

b) (Niphal) to be brought near

c) (Piel) to cause to approach, bring near, cause to draw near

d) (Hiphil) to bring near, bring, present

The person is being passively brought near, being caused to approach, its the working of God in a person both to will and do of His good pleasure, its the effect of the Cross of Christ also Eph 2:13.

This is but God calling whom He will into blessed fellowship with Himself and the Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor 1:9

9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

And this is also called the Election of God of which He is the Sovereign cause 1 Thess 1:4

4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. 3
 
The same goes for the word "elect".

The president "elect" is not President yet. He is just chosen to be President eventually.

ἐκλεκτός
eklektos
ek-lek-tos'
From G1586; select; by implication favorite: - chosen, elect.
 
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Also, being "chosen" by Jesus isn't always a good thing.

John 6:70; Jesus answered them, "Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?"

Luke 10:1; Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.
John 6:66; As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.
John 6:67; So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, do you?"

Just because Jesus chose you doesn't mean you will stay with Him.

Matt 13:40; "So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age.
Matt 13:41; "The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness,
Matt 13:42; and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Just because someone is already in "His kingdom" doesn't mean they won't be thrown out later.
 
He does not show any partiality for any people, of any race.


I know this is exactly what Pauls says in scripture.

Romans 2:11


I am trying to learn how to articulate this better, when I tell people this it is as plain as day in the scripture, The main l rebuttal I get is

rebuttal ........that scripture only refers to the saved people who are believers, God chosen people are the Jews, and God only calls the Jews his people in the OT. The Jews are as special people to God as no other people on the planet.

now I can almost see where they are coming from, when you read the OT God does call the Jews only MY people.

would love thoughts on this,
 
Also, being "chosen" by Jesus isn't always a good thing.

John 6:70; Jesus answered them, "Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?"

Luke 10:1; Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.
John 6:66; As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.
John 6:67; So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, do you?"

Just because Jesus chose you doesn't mean you will stay with Him.

Matt 13:40; "So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age.
Matt 13:41; "The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness,
Matt 13:42; and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


Just because someone is already in "His kingdom" doesn't mean they won't be thrown out later.
Its always good when chosen by Jesus for Salvation. But if you are chosen by God for damnation, it wont be well with you.
 
Election is in Christ !


Election is in Christ or some have been chosen in Christ, When ? Before the foundation of the World Eph 1:4

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

And let it be known, that this Election puts one in Christ that early, and that of God are they in Christ Jesus 1 Cor 1:30a

30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Not of our faith, our choosing or our repentance, but of God's Sovereign choice by Grace. This Election gave one a Representative Being in Christ, like Levi had in the Loins of Abraham Heb 7:9-10

9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

It also gives a Representative Union with Him, and it is at conversion when believing the Truth, that Union is made manifest openly, and is evidence of having been in Christ before. This is the same as Eve's open marriage to Adam, did but give Evidence that She previously had a Union with him before, and of course Paul likens that to the Church and Christ Eph 5:28-32

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.


That Eve had this Union with Adam at Adam's Creation is clear from Gen 5:1-2

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

And so Later God brought the woman to the Man Gen 2:22

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

God caused her to come to the man, Just like He causes The Church, Christ's Bride to come to Him Jn 6:37

37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

Which in the final analysis will be all those Chosen in Him before the foundation Eph 1:4 ! 4
 
Chosen to Believe and Why !

Eph 1:4

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Chosen that we should be Holy and without blame before Him in Love ! Some ignorantly say that scripture does not teach an election to believe in Christ, but that is another lie from the father of lies and his minions, for our present scripture teaches that very thing; for in being Chosen to be Holy, accompanied with that is Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth 2 Thess 2:13, for its by the sanctifying Work of the Spirit [New Birth] see Eph 4:24 that we become experientially Holy, which answers the Purpose of Eph 1:4
 
Chosen to Believe and Why !

Eph 1:4

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Chosen that we should be Holy and without blame before Him in Love ! Some ignorantly say that scripture does not teach an election to believe in Christ, but that is another lie from the father of lies and his minions, for our present scripture teaches that very thing; for in being Chosen to be Holy, accompanied with that is Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth 2 Thess 2:13, for its by the sanctifying Work of the Spirit [New Birth] see Eph 4:24 that we become experientially Holy, which answers the Purpose of Eph 1:4

If a belief fails ''terribly'' at accurately representing God, you are possibly the definition of a false teacher.

Able only to read scripture with your corrupted vision.

Prove to me that the belief you espouse does NOT paint God as a wicked fool, or you need to be absolutely terrified of your posts that you are typing here that do.

You are misrepresenting scripture and rejecting correction. So I want you to explain to me how your take does not incriminate God.

If you can't, I will need to write you off as a troll. Doing damage to Christianity and brazenly ignorant of a judgement day by the very God you are misrepresenting.

God specially selecting people for heaven = partiality = racism = evil = height of wickedness. Debunked in its entirety by Acts 10:34 and 1 Tim 2:4.

Go, floor is yours...
 
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