[stfassisi]

IT-””Is God going to allow anybody in heaven, or only those whom he has chosen”

God does not need to choose because He wills us all sufficient grace to be saved and gives us a free will to follow or reject it.

We either love God's WILL OR WE SELFISHLY REJECT GOD'S WILL IN FAVOR OF OUR OWN WILL

Only the prideful think of themselves as the chosen by God.

Jim Jones and others made these claims that they were chosen by God

[irishtenor]

***Only the prideful think of themselves as the chosen by God.***

My dear friend, if I were worthy of being chosen by God, then I would have pride. I am not worthy, I have done nothing spectacular, significant, or noteworthy. I am a sinner, chosen by God, now called by him to be one of his children. There is no pride in that, because I didn’t have any thing to do with his choosing me. There is MUCH rejoicing, though, as God calls us to do in Philippians 4. Much rejoicing.

***We either love God’s WILL OR WE SELFISHLY REJECT GOD’S WILL IN FAVOR OF OUR OWN WILL***

While we are still unregenerated, we cannot love God or his will. It is only when God chooses us, regenerates us, changes us, can we come to him and love him. We reject him from birth, and only when he changes us came we accept him. Remember what it says in Romans... no one seeks God, no, not one.

[Forest Keeper]

Only the prideful think of themselves as the chosen by God. Jim Jones and others made these claims that they were chosen by God.

Are you talking about Apostolic succession, or the elect? :)