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Me-"Now, can you explain to me that if one needs to make a "profession of faith" why these two were saved before they were born? No one has yet."

SD-"Your TULIPs are all connected, in a bizarre circular way."

Just one more thing on this. For 30 years I could never figure out many of these types of verses (and there's a lot). The natural conclusion by theologians is to say that God works differently for different people. There are no theological answers and they are often ignored just as you have done. It was only after understanding the sovereignty of God and God's election that I now understand how God can choose someone in the womb to do His work.

God doesn't work any different in choosing you or me as He did in choosing Jeremiah or John the Baptist.

The natural conclusion by theologians is to say that God works differently for different people.

God can indeed, and does, work differently with different people. And I'm sure He can and does compell actions and attitudes in order to move along history. But I don't generalize from the fact that God can and does act in history to extrapolate that only God can act, can choose, has a will that will be done.

If God wants to raise up a prophet, He will. I don't think that automatically means that none of us are free agents.