BBAS: “Are you suggesting that God did not Choose Israel ( his treasured possession) from among all the nation of the world to be His Covenant people?”
I said nothing about the nation of Israel in the OP. In my experience, the Doctrine of Election means God choosing individual souls for salvation.
Why are you trying to change the subject?
Good Day, Dale
I am not changing the subject.
NT Election = the act of picking out, choosing
God Choose Israel as him Covenant people ( his people) would you agree?
In the same way He chooses His New Covenant people and yes he does save them, as the NC only has believers in it.
You may find this helpful to your understanding:
God is worthy of our praise precisely because he has chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world.
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Election is the divine choice of God to grant eternal life to undeserving sinners based solely on his love and not on the goodness of those receiving his grace. It is not arbitrary but part of his grand plan of salvation and grounded in his eternal wisdom. Paul indicates that God elected or predestined his people “in love.”1 That God sovereignly elects a people for himself is not original to Paul but is a theme that runs throughout the Bible. In the Old Testament, God graciously chose Abraham and blessed him to become a blessing to the nations (
Gen. 12:1–3). Later, God chose the nation of Israel to be his treasured possession, not because they were greater than the other nations or because of their righteousness, but because of his love (
Deut. 7:6–8; 14:2). Similarly, in Christ, God chose individuals from all the peoples of the world to become his people, a decision based on his amazing love.
Paul also indicates that God’s election is rooted in the work of Christ. Four times in
Ephesians 1:3–6 he links the blessings of God’s sovereign, electing grace to the Son: we are blessed “in Christ” (
Eph. 1:3); we are chosen “in him” (
Eph 1:4); we are adopted “through Jesus Christ” (
Eph. 1:5); and we are blessed because of being “in the Beloved” (
Eph. 1:5). The blessings we receive are reserved specifically for those who are united with Christ through faith, those who trust in his death, resurrection, and ascension. The ability to call God our Father is possible only through Christ, who alone provides access to the Father because of Christ’s finished work on the cross. Christ is not only the recipient
par excellence of the Father’s love and affection (
Col. 1:13), but it is through his beloved Son that we receive his blessings. Furthermore, God’s work of predestination was done “according to the purpose of his will” (
Eph. 1:5). The basis of God’s choice was his own will carried out in accordance with his “purpose,” or “good pleasure,” indicating that the choosing of his people was something in which God delighted. God’s choice was also done in accordance with his “will.” God has a definite plan and redemptive purpose for adopting wayward sinners into his family.
In Him,
Bill
