Biblical predestination is not God unconditionally choosing to save some while choosing to allow everyone else to unavoidably, inevitably be condemned to hell eternally.  Whether those who teach this falsehood know and admit or not, this heretical portrayal of God’s character is a key tenet of the theology of Calvinism.  

Biblical predestination is a reference to the Lord’s ultimate goal which He works to bring those who truly receive Christ to arrive at as they cooperate with His work in them.  If a teacher’s goal is that their student attain a certain set of skills, that is the teacher’s predestined goal (whether the goal is ever eventually accomplished or not).  Biblical predestination has nothing to do with God choosing certain individuals to be saved or to go to hell.  

The Calvinist view of predestination necessitates that Jesus could not have died for every individual’s sins; and also that no individual whom Christ died for could end up lost.  Their view of predestination is proven false due to how the Bible teaches the very opposite.  

The Bible actually teaches that Christ died for as many people as have turned from God and sinned.  

Isaiah 53:6: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

The Bible then also logically teaches that there are many whom Christ died for who will yet end up lost and go to hell. Jesus dying for an individual doesn’t mean that individual is guaranteed to be saved.  

2 Peter 2:1: “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”

In relation to foreknowledge, God has appointed only one plan of redemption from sin unto eternal life.  He was working to accomplish this plan since mankind fell in Genesis chapter 3.  God foreknew Israel in the sense of planning a specific nation to bring forth Christ through.  Those whom God foreknew on an individual basis are those who obey the terms of the Gospel of Christ.  This is seen constantly in the Bible since the offer of His grace in Christ is to “whosoever.”  

The elect are those chosen conditionally- based upon a proper response to Jesus Christ (the Elect One). Abel was elected and Cain was not.  The acceptance of the one was based on compliance with the Lord’s instructions; and the rejection of the other was based upon refusal to comply.  People say they accept Jesus all the time.  However, that matters nothing if He does not accept you.

True believers in Jesus Christ are elect because they believe in the Elect One who is the chief cornerstone of the household of God.  They are foreknown because they are in the One who was foreknown to be the author of salvation.  And as they abide in Him, they are on track to reach the predestined glory which has been prepared for those who endure to the end as His faithful disciples.

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