Chapter Three: God’s Decree

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3.5 : Footnotes and Supportive Scripture

Those of mankind who are predestinated to life, God chose before the foundation of the world was laid, in accordance with his eternal and immutable purpose and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will. God chose them in Christ for everlasting glory, solely out of his free grace and love, without anything in the creature as a condition or cause moving him to choose.

Rom 9:13

As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Rom 9:16

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

Eph 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Eph 1:9

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

Eph 1:11

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

2 Tim 1:9

who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began

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