predestined individuals ;
II Thess. 2:13: God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. (As an elect God works with those that believe. Believing makes anyone, one of the elect.We enter by being justified by faith. Once we are an elect, then Christ, the Holy Spirit is able to work with man to conform him to Christ, to make him holy, blameless etc. But the ONLY way one can be an elect is by faith.)
Matt. 24:24: There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. (The elect is a group, it is the Body of Christ, His Church, those called out. An elect would be a single member of the elect.)
Matt. 24:31: And they (the angels) shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ( His elect are those that have believed. Nothing here to denote that an individual is predestined TO BE AN ELECT.)
Mark 13:20: For the elects sake, whom He chose, He shortened those days (at the destruction of Jerusalem). ( again, for the sake of the Chruch, the elect, the Body of the elect, the days will be shortened. Nothing about individuals being predestined to be one of the elect.)
I Thess. 1:4: Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election. (All the elect are are those that believed. Here Paul is saying that He told them of the special purpose they have as the elect. Nothing says that they were predestined to be an elect.)
Rom. 11:7: The election obtained it, and the rest were hardened. (This is part of the discourse of Paul with the hypotheical Judiazer. The judiazer claims, based on what Paul had stated that God then has forsaken Isreal. But Paul says not at all, God is still blessing Isreal, His remnant, those that have believed, they are that remnant, even today, it is a remnant, His Body, His Church that receives the blessings of being chosen, the called out ones.)
I Tim. 5:21: I charge thee in the sight of God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect angels. ( a great proof text but nothing even about believers, let alone believers predestined to believe.)
Rom. 8:33: Who shall lay anything to the charge of Gods elect? ( a group, where does this imply in the context that these individuals who are the elect were predestined to believe or be the elect?)
Rom. 11:5: (In comparison with Elijahs time) Even so at the present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. (see comment under Rom 11:7 same context)
II Tim. 2:10: I endure all things for the elects sake. ( nothing here either about an individual being redestined to believe or become an elect.)
Titus 1:1: Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of Gods elect. ( those that believe and are IN Christ got there by faith.)
I Peter 1:1: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect. (Peter is addressing the Body of Christ, the elect. Nothing about how one becomes an elect, even by faith.)
I Peter 5:13: She that is in Babylon, elect together with you. (just denoting the Body of Christ of which Silvanus is one of them.)
I Peter 2:9: But ye are an elect race. ( actually a called out race, a holy nation, but nevertheless, anyway you say it, it is the group. Nothing about individuals being predestined to be an elect.
I Thess. 5:9: For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (appoint means here, God predestined, chose, appointed that those IN Christ, those that love Him, those that believed in Him would obtain salvation. One needs to enter in order to be saved. We are being saved when we are IN Christ. We get there, we enter by faith. The ONLY way known in scripture.)
Acts 13:48: And as the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God; and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. ( same meaning here)
John 17:9: I (Jesus) pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine. ( specifically referring to the disciples. This is Christ's High Priestly prayer of four parts, this part is for the disciples. He is not praying for anyone else but the disciples.
John 6:37: All that the Father giveth me shall come unto me. ( All were given to Him by the Father, in fact ALL THINGS were given to Him. Col 1:15-20.)
John 6:65: No man can come unto me except it be given unto him of the Father. (And all men were taught by the Father, the Father gave Christ all things, Christ lost none that were given to Him. John 6:39.
John 13:18: I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen. (again only referring to the disciples. God even chose Judas)
John 15:16: Ye did not choose me, but I chose you. ( again a direct discourse to the disciples and thus also to those they have appointed in their stead over 2000 years, all bishops who have the same authority as they received from Christ. It is very specific authority. It is that Apostolic Authority that all protestants have discarded.)
Ps 105:6: Ye children of Jacob, His chosen ones. ( Actually, already of Abraham. Isreal was going to be the chosen people, just as the elect would become the chosen of God in the NT.)
Rom. 9:23: Vessels of mercy, which He afore prepared unto glory.( Which were the Gentiles. His plan all along was for all mankind. But in order to bring the Messiah into being a chosen race, an people, Isreal would receive special blessings. Not just any Isrealite, but those that blieved, those of faith. It has always been of faith. Those of faith are the true Isrealite.)
