On what basis Does God Elect?

[RobertZ]

What you can be sure of is that election is not based on knowing ahead of time who will accept as that would make God subject to man and at some point having to look ahead to know.

But God does not have to look ahead into time because he exist outside of the human concept of time. God is everywhere all at once, he occupies all of the past and all of the future all at the same time without having to look forward or look back.

 

[Hupomone10]

Robert,
what we know from scripture is that God elects. We also know we must repent and believe. Both are true but scripture does not explain how it works. The best thing is to believe both and not try and figure it out. It is like Jesus being a man who was able to die and also being God who cannot die. Accept both without understanding how. What you can be sure of is that election is not based on knowing ahead of time who will accept as that would make God subject to man and at some point having to look ahead to know.