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Way of Life:Some Lessons on God’s Foreknowledge and Eternal Plans


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“Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began” (2 Timothy 1:9).
What does it mean that God’s purpose and grace was given us before the world began?
First, this doesn’t mean that God sovereignly chooses some to be saved.
The doctrine of “sovereign election” as it was taught by Augustine and John Calvin, that God chose some to be saved and that God’s election has nothing to do with who will or will not believe, and that if I am not elect there is nothing I can do to be elect, might seem to be supported by some proof texts if those texts are isolated and if that doctrine is read into them , but the Calvinist doctrine of “sovereign election” is contrary to the tenor of the entire... Read More

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