In love he predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. The Word of God is clear: believers are those whom God chose for salvation from before the beginning. The foreknowledge to which Peter refers 1 Peter should not be confused with simple foresight. Some teach this view, contending that God, in eternity past, looked down the halls of history to see who would respond to His call and then elected the redeemed on the basis of their response.
It makes God the One who is passively chosen rather than the One who actively chooses. And it misunderstands the way in which Peter uses the term foreknowledge. In 1 Peter , the apostle uses the verb form of that word, prognosis in the Greek, to refer to Christ. It is reasonable, then, to conclude that the same is true when Peter applies prognosis to believers in other places cf.
The ninth chapter of Romans also reiterates the elective purposes of God. God chose Jacob over Esau, not on the basis of anything Jacob or Esau had done, but according to His own free and uninfluenced sovereign purpose.
Many more Scripture passages could be added to this survey. Yet as straightforward as the Word of God is, people continually have difficulty accepting the doctrine of election.
The reason, again, is that they allow their preconceived notions of how God should act based on a human definition of fairness to override the truth of His sovereignty as laid out in the Scriptures. No man and no committee of men originated this doctrine. While fairly comprehensive, the author presents the material in a list-like manner failing to communicate the engaging nature of the topic.
Useful as a type of concordance of election terminology and verses touching on the topic hence, our placement within this section. Wildberger, Hans. Edited by Ernst Jenni and Claus Westermann, — Translated by Mark E. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, Examines the term under three categories based upon statistical usage within the Hebrew Bible: profane usage 22 percent ; theological with God as subject 67 percent ; theological with people as subject 11 percent.
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