giving his own Son into death to win salvation for us, won’t he now also do all the lesser and easier things to see to it that we actually get that salvation? In the next two questions, Paul shifts to a courtroom scene. He asks, “Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.” The Greek word underlying the term chosen is eklekton, “the elect.” They are the ones whom God foreknew and predestined, and whom he justified in time. Who could possibly oppose God in
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