In some ways, Scripture seems to teach that God's election was based on His foreknowledge of all things and in other ways, Scripture also teaches that God did not choose any of us because of anything that we do or say. because His choice is freely chosen within His uninfluenced sovereign will. I cannot say that I truly know which is correct or if both are somehow correct.
But I know that Scripture does say that salvation is completely a work of God to us, not at all of ourselves in any way, lest we should have anything to boast of in this matter. God gets all the glory and credit for our salvation. We are the recipients for His mercy and grace not the ones who initiate its release to us.
I think that the hardest part of God's Sovereignty for many believers and unbelievers is, if God desires all humans to be saved, why He does not save everyone. He certainly has the power and authority to freely choose to do so. But He does not, and we feel the anguish of realizing that billions of humans will not be saved, more will enter eternity unsaved that save, for narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and wide is the way to eternal destruction. Why would God have this be so? We just do not know. Yet as believers we must trust that His sovereign ways are just and true and righteous and without any form of malice, desire to see anyone to be condemned to eternal punishment, or favorites. How do we square with that knowledge of God as the Eternal Sovereign? I really do not have an answer because the counsels of God are beyond us finding out.
So, let us let God be God and ourselves be unworthy of all His goodness given to us in Christ Jesus.
Pt. 3
In some ways, Scripture seems to teach that God's election was based on His foreknowledge of all things and in other ways, Scripture also teaches that God did not choose any of us because of anything that we do or say. because His choice is freely chosen within His uninfluenced sovereign will. I cannot say that I truly know which is correct or if both are somehow correct.
But I know that Scripture does say that salvation is completely a work of God to us, not at all of ourselves in any way, lest we should have anything to boast of in this matter. God gets all the glory and credit for our salvation. We are the recipients for His mercy and grace not the ones who initiate its release to us.
I think that the hardest part of God's Sovereignty for many believers and unbelievers is, if God desires all humans to be saved, why He does not save everyone. He certainly has the power and authority to freely choose to do so. But He does not, and we feel the anguish of realizing that billions of humans will not be saved, more will enter eternity unsaved that save, for narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and wide is the way to eternal destruction. Why would God have this be so? We just do not know. Yet as believers we must trust that His sovereign ways are just and true and righteous and without any form of malice, desire to see anyone to be condemned to eternal punishment, or favorites. How do we square with that knowledge of God as the Eternal Sovereign? I really do not have an answer because the counsels of God are beyond us finding out.
So, let us let God be God and ourselves be unworthy of all His goodness given to us in Christ Jesus.
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