Election and Grace
Unconditional Election
Grace · 4 verses
God's election of specific individuals unto salvation proceeds from His sovereign pleasure alone, unconditioned by foreseen faith, works, or worthiness in the chosen. This discriminating love, exercised before the foundation of the world, ensures the certain salvation of the elect while demonstrating divine justice toward the non-elect who receive their deserved condemnation.
Scripture References
“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,”
“(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)”
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
“And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”