John Calvin1509-1564

John Calvin1509-1564

Institutes of the Christian Religion

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Unconditional Election

Is it true that God has UNCONDITIONALLY…

ELECTED certain people to save and others to damnation?

Calvinism says “Yes.”

Unconditional Election

“We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction.

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We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment.”

(John Calvin)

Unconditional Election

“The doctrine of election declares that God, before the foundation of the world, chose certain individuals from among the fallen members of Adam’s race to be the objects of his undeserved favor. These, and these only, He purposed to save. God could have chosen to save all men, or he could have chosen to save none – but he did neither.

Unconditional Election

“The doctrine of election declares that God, before the foundation of the world, chose certain individuals from among the fallen members of Adam’s race to be the objects of his undeserved favor. These, and those only, He purposed to save. God could have chosen to save all men, or he could have chosen to save none – but he did neither.

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Instead he chose to save some and exclude others…Thus election was not determined by, or conditioned upon, anything that men would do, but resulted entirely from God’s self-determined purpose.”

(David Steels, Calvinism, Defined, Documented, and Defended, Pg 30, 31)

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“By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death.

Unconditional Election

These angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained are particularly and unchangeably designed and their number is so certain and definite that it can not be either increased or diminished.” (Presbyterian Confession of Faith, chap. 3, sec. 3,4,5)

Unconditional Election

Does God elect?Yes.

Does He unconditionally elect for Salvation?

No.

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Examples of God’s ElectionIndividuals:

Christ – Isa. 42.1; 1 Pet. 2.6

Unconditional Election

Examples of God’s ElectionIndividuals:

Christ – Isa. 42.1; 1 Pet. 2.6

Unconditional Election

Examples of God’s ElectionIndividuals:

Christ – Isa. 42.1; 1 Pet. 2.6Abraham – Neh. 9.7; Gal.

3.16

Unconditional Election

Examples of God’s ElectionIndividuals:

Christ – Isa. 42.1; 1 Pet. 2.6Abraham – Neh. 9.7; Gal.

3.16Isaac – Gen. 21.12Jacob – Isa. 41.8

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Examples of God’s ElectionIndividuals:

Christ – Isa. 42.1; 1 Pet. 2.6Abraham – Neh. 9.7; Gal. 3.16Isaac – Gen. 21.12Jacob – Isa. 41.8Judah – Heb. 7.14

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Examples of God’s ElectionIndividuals:Moses –Ps. 106:23Aaron –Ps. 105:26

Yet neither made it to the promised land!

Saul –1 Sam 10:24Stripped of Kingdom

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Examples of God’s ElectionNations/Bodies/Groups

Israel was God’s elect nation – Ex. 3.7, 10

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Examples of God’s ElectionNations/Bodies/Groups

Israel was God’s elect nation – Ex. 3.7, 10

Yet He dealt with them as He did with individuals…

Ex. 19.3-6

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Examples of God’s ElectionNations/Bodies/Groups

Israel was God’s elect nation – Ex. 3.7, 10

Yet He dealt with them as He did with individuals…

Ex. 19.3-6

Unconditional Election

(1 Cor. 10:5-10 NKJV) But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. {6} Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

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{7} And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." {8} Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;

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{9} nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; {10} nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

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Examples of God’s ElectionNations/Bodies/Groups

Today, we are God’s elect nation – 1 Peter 2.5, 9

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Examples of God’s ElectionNations/Bodies/Groups

Today, we are God’s elect nation – 1 Peter 2.5, 9

What makes us think He will deal with us differently than His last chosen nation?

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Elected Body of SalvationNoah’s ArkRahab’s HouseBody of Christ

Eph. 1

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How do we enter this elect place of safety?How do we get “in Christ”?

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(1 Cor 12:13 NKJV) For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body; whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free; and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

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(Gal 3:26-27 NKJV) For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. {27} For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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(Mark 16:15-16 NKJV) And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. {16} "He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

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(Rom 6:3-4 NKJV) Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

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{4} Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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Are we expected to remain faithful else forfeit our election?

Yes! (Rev. 2:10, 1 Cor. 10:12)

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So…is it true that we are UNCONDITIONALLY elected to Salvation?

NO!

T.U.L.I.P.

Total Hereditary DepravityUnconditional ElectionLimited AtonementIrresistible GracePerseverance of the Saints