Put differently, if conditional election says that God chose us because we will choose Him, unconditional election says that we will choose to believe in Him because God first chose us. The third view, corporate election, bypasses the focus of the first two views because it insists that God does not choose particular persons at all. Instead, it maintains that God chose to save the body of believers—the church—as a group. But He does not choose the particular persons who decide to become part of that