rw, I don't see how the GRPLs can have God chosing between the Elect and Non-Elect without making him a respecter of persons.
If God were choosing the Elect based on some characteristic that the Elect have that Reprobate do not then I'd agree with you. However God does not base His Elective decision on anything to do with the person. He bases it on His own good pleasure.
Thus my initial question remains unanswered. Fru could only answer it by changing the question.
Why is He pleased with some and not others?
xzins pretty well summed up the distinctions above.
Are you saying He does it with foreknowledge or forethought. If He does so without foreknowledge, then He is not God. If He does it without forethought, then He is not doing it with foreknowledge, and He is again....not God.
Therefore, He did it KNOWING the person, and THEN it was His pleasure....in other words He was pleas(ur)ed with the one He chose and NOT pleas(ur)ed with the one He did not choose.
Therefore, it was something in the persons that He knew that either pleased Him or displeased Him.