[Safrguns]

2 great scripture references.

What is your point?

[jonno]

(I may be wrong, but I think he is attempting to support your position...)

[Springfield Reformer]

I believe the import of those passages is that election is unconditional. If one introduces a condition precedent to God’s act of choice, then the election is conditional, and we are no longer talking about full Calvinism.

Which raises a number of interesting questions all by itself. How much can we erode the definition of Calvinism before it stops being Calvinism? My own position is that unconditional election is critical to the definition. Everybody gives lip service to predestination, because there it is in the text. But making our choice as humans the basis of God’s choice by invoking the “look ahead” theory voids the essence of Calvinism.

Peace,

SR