An excellent question! Had they not been found, would God's selection of them have been thwarted?
And if it could not have been thwarted, why was it so important that they be found?
And if finding them was itself part of God's unthwartable plan, what is so great about the men who went and found these elect, since the finding of them was, after all, unthwartably predestined?
Whew. The circularity is dizzying!
And, for that matter, why thump your chest about the fact that your theological forefathers were great founders and leaders of America? If it was gonna happen anyway, why fill yourself with pride over it?
This homage to Aaron Burr and Woodrow Wilson, if I didn't know better, looks suspiciously like the veneration Papists give to their saints.
SD
What a stupid question actually.
It is simply IMPOSSIBLE for God's elect to not be found because God is sovereign and would not allow it.
NEXT!
NO SOUP FOR YOU.
God commands us to do it. That is all you need to know.
You need to read Romans 9...when Paul talked about this very topic he had the same objections (there is nothing new under the sun).
You know what he said? The gist is this: Who are you to question God, oh man?
Well, just who are you to question God's ways, Petronski?