RevExp 93:2 (Spring 1996) p. 239 within the scope of history. Painting election as simply, or even primarily, a pre-temporal (and therefore decidedly unhistorical) decree devalues or ignores a real incarnation, a real Gethsemane, a real cross, and a real resurrection. The Bible knows nothing of a Jewish-Christian deism.15 The destiny of humanity and the future of the world hung upon the radical obedience of the Son to the will of the Father—a real death on a real cross.16 Further, our incorporation