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Where does the Bible teach this is how God chooses?
The entire Bible teaches it is the choice of the individual that determines his/her salvation. Where do I start? So many scriptures teach this, but just a few are needed to make that point.
1. John 3:18“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20“For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21“But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
2. Genesis 3:1 "Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat of any tree in the garden?’”
2The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, 3but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
3. Deuteronomy 30: 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. So choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, 20and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”…
Where does the Bible teach this is how God chooses?
The Bible also teaches God sees our futures and knows who will choose to follow him in advance of them doing so. Because God has seen it before it happens for people to know. And God knows who satisfactorily does the job of ruling over this Earth with Christ, because he has seen that also. Before we were born God knew his elect because of that. That's why he chose us. SEE THESE SCRIPTURES THAT SPEAK TO THIS POINT. THE IDEA THAT GOD SEES OUR FUTURES & CHOOSES CERTAIN HUMANS FOR CERTAIN JOBS BECAUSE OF THAT. There is not any assignment that God gives to humans that is more important to him than ruling over this Earth as one of Christ's elect.
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 139: 16Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
17How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
In addition to these few scriptures, consider prophecy. In many, maybe even in most of the prophecies, God was describing what WILL happen because he HAD seen it before it did happen. In those prophecies God was not describing events that only occur because he manipulates events to make those things happen. The betrayal of Christ by Judas I cite as just one such prophecy.
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