Unconditional election
Unconditional election teaches that in eternity God chose some individuals from the mass of fallen humanity unto salvation without regard to any merit or foreseen faith in them, but solely based on His sovereign intentions.
- All occurrences of “election”
- Ro 9:11; 11:28; 2Pe 1:10
- Believers elected
- Mt 24:22, 24, 31 (cf. Mk 13:20, 22, 27); Lk 18:7; Ac 13:48; Ro 8:33; 1Co 8:3; Gal 4:9; 2Ti 2:10, 19; Tit 1:1; 1Pe 1:1–2; 2Jn 1, 13
- Angels elected
- Mt 25:41; 1Ti 5:21
- All occurrences of “predestined”
- Ro 8:29–30; Eph 1:5, 11 — same Greek word used at Ac 4:28; 1Co 2:7
- All occurrences of “foreknew”
- Ro 8:29; 11:2; 1Pe 1:1–2 — same Greek word used at Ac 2:23; 26:5; 1Pe 1:20; 2Pe 3:17
- God chooses
- Mt 25:32–34; Lk 12:32; Jn 13:18; 15:16, 19; Ro 11:5; 2Th 2:13–14; 2Ti 2:19; Jas 2:5
- The Father gives the elect to the Son
- Jn 6:37; 10:29; 17:1–2, 6, 9, 24
- Election is unconditional
- Ro 9:10–13, 15–18; 11:5–6; 1Co 1:26–31; Eph 1:5, 11; 2Ti 1:9
- Non-elect do not see or believe
- Jn 6:64–65; 8:46–47; 10:26
- Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses elected
- Ge 12:1–3; 18:17–19; 21:12; 25:23–26; Ex 33:17–19; Mal 1:2–3; Ro 9:6–9, 10–13, 14–18
- Israel (or remnant Israel) elected
- Dt 4:37; 7:6–8; 10:14–15; 14:2; 26:18–19; 32:8–9; 1Sa 12:22; Ps 33:12; 47:4; 100:3; 105:6, 43; 135:4; Isa 14:1; 41:8–10; 42:1; 45:4–5; Hos 13:4–5; Am 3:2; Zec 2:12; Ac 13:17; Ro 11:2, 5, 7, 28
- Reprobation is also predestined
- Jos 11:20; Pr 16:4; Mt 7:23; 15:13–14; Jn 10:26; Ro 9:13, 17–24 (cites Ex 9:16); Ro 11:7–8; 2Ti 2:19–20; 1Pe 2:7–8; Jude 4; Rev 13:8; 17:8; 20:15
- Unconditional election is not unfair
- Mt 20:13–15; Ro 9:21 (cf. Jer 18:6)
- Election is a pastoral doctrine, a great comfort to believers
- Lk 12:32; Ac 18:9–10; Ro 8:28, 31–39; 1Co 1:8–9; Php 1:6; 1Th 5:23–24; 2Ti 1:12; 4:18