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How does God ordain who will spend eternity with him? Did God decide that certain specific persons would go to heaven or hell before he created the world? Did God know everything that will ever happen before he created anything? If so, did God know this because he determined these things would happen, or vice versa? Will everyone eventually go to heaven? Answers to these and many other...

Divine election (I will be contending) is not about a few sinners being selected arbitrarily for salvation and the rest being consigned to hellfire. Rather it is about God’s willing the salvation of all nations and calling an elect people in order to realize it. God’s love does not fall short—it is a perfect, not a partial, loving. How we handle election speaks volumes about our understanding of the character of God and the universality of the gospel. How we handle divine election will say a lot
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