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Chosen in Christ: Revisiting the Contours of Predestination is unavailable, but you can change that!

Cornel Venema revisits the important doctrine of predestination to re-familiarize the church with truths about God’s sovereignty in salvation. But he does not merely re-visit old ground but also engages a host of historic and contemporary challenges to the doctrine. He addresses the subject from exegetical, historical, contemporary, and pastoral vantage points.

Romans 11, Paul declares that ‘God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew’ (v. 2). The apostle adduces God’s ‘foreknowledge’ of His chosen people, Israel, to support his claim that there is at the present time a ‘remnant [within Israel], chosen by grace’ (Rom. 11:2–5). Paul clearly uses the language of God’s ‘foreknowledge’ to refer to God’s particular choice and saving affection for those among the people of Israel whom He elected to save.5 When Paul speaks of God’s ‘foreknowledge’ in Romans
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