This is because the only ones whose hearts are changed with regeneration, are drawn to Jesus for salvation, who will believe the gospel, and have faith in Jesus are those God elected and these and these alone He regenerates, causes faith to come.
Paul explains this in Romans 5
6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (In this chapter Paul is speaking to believers in Rome, not unbelievers).
And John says in 1 John 4
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
John is speaking to diaspora believers here in this Epistle and he says that Jesus came into the world to save those who became believers and this action by God manifests His love towards His elect. John wrote this . Neither Paul nor John in these letters speak to non-believers. If one is a believer, then they were elected to salvation before the creation.
I do think that this is difficult for many believers to accept and there may be some here who will differ with me on this. I welcome any correction if one uses Scriptural citations to prove what they explain about their understanding. It is a common phrase among Christians to say to "love the sinner but hate the sin." And we are to do this. But God is different from us in that Scripture is clear that He hates both sin and sinners. Yet He still chose to love those He determined to save while they were sinners because He knows the end from the beginning and sovereignly brings about all that He wills.
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This is because the only ones whose hearts are changed with regeneration, are drawn to Jesus for salvation, who will believe the gospel, and have faith in Jesus are those God elected and these and these alone He regenerates, causes faith to come.
Paul explains this in Romans 5
6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (In this chapter Paul is speaking to believers in Rome, not unbelievers).
And John says in 1 John 4
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
John is speaking to diaspora believers here in this Epistle and he says that Jesus came into the world to save those who became believers and this action by God manifests His love towards His elect. John wrote this . Neither Paul nor John in these letters speak to non-believers. If one is a believer, then they were elected to salvation before the creation.
I do think that this is difficult for many believers to accept and there may be some here who will differ with me on this. I welcome any correction if one uses Scriptural citations to prove what they explain about their understanding. It is a common phrase among Christians to say to "love the sinner but hate the sin." And we are to do this. But God is different from us in that Scripture is clear that He hates both sin and sinners. Yet He still chose to love those He determined to save while they were sinners because He knows the end from the beginning and sovereignly brings about all that He wills.
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