Wow! Just think of the numerous contradictions included in these statements. Do you agree with the idea that you “belonged to God before time began”? The following refutes such thinking. According to Ephesians 2:3, all persons are born spiritually dead to God, separated from God. This separation presents a gigantic problem for the theory that God chose/elected believers to salvation from eternity past by means of an eternal decree and, at the same time, entered into a special relationship with them.