The Election of Men in the Plan In Ephesians 1:4–5 Paul tells the church that God the Father “chose [ἐξελέξατο, exelexato] us in him [Christ] before the creation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him, in love having predestinated [προορίσας, proorisas] us unto sonship by adoption through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” In this doxology Paul clearly states that from all eternity God had chosen the Christian to holiness and predestinated