Based on foreknowledge."
Perzactly!!!!
The Arminian position is such that they believe that God "foreknew" which men would "choose" him and persevere.
Since God must first "foreknow" what a man chooses, the Arminian has effectively reversed the order of this passage.
The Arminian now argues "and as many as believed were ordained to eternal life."
Again, you have demonstrated my point that Arminians must twist the Scriptures, change definitions of words and add foreign concepts to passages in order to make them "fit" with their "Free-Will" philosophical paradigm.
If God need let man be with his "choice", then God has not appointed man to anything. It is man who made the choice to believe and to persevere -therefore God needn't have appointed him to anything.
Furthermore, there is not one place in Scripture which tells us that God saved man based on his "foreknowledge" of man's acctions and choices. Not one!
Jean