[RochesterFan]

So if God is choosing according to His good pleasure, how is that NOT whimsical?

Because capricious/whimsical implies a will that changes based upon changing desires. Because God is absolute and outside of space and time, He does not change. I submit to you that a will and "good pleasure" that has not changed since "before the foundations of the world" does not qualify as whimsical.

[ksen]

I submit to you that a will and "good pleasure" that has not changed since "before the foundations of the world" does not qualify as whimsical.

So having a “will and ‘good pleasure’ that has not changed since ‘before the foundations of the world’” would be the same as having a fixed set of rules to make judgments by?

All whim and arbitrary come down to are not having a fixed criteria. Does God have a fixed criteria for deciding who is Elect and who is not?

[ksen]

I just thought about it some more.

You are saying that God's Will does not change(I agree). That being the case, God's Will is the fixed criteria by which His decisions are made. Therefore His decisions cannot be arbitrary or whimsical.

Do you agree with that?