elected man in one. [3] It is part of the doctrine of God because originally God’s election of man is a predestination not merely of man but of Himself. [4] Its function is to bear fundamental testimony to eternal, free and unchanging grace as the beginning of all the ways and works of God.10 I have inserted numbers for these four sentences because I now propose to look at each of these sentences as Karl Barth intended them to be understood, interpreting them in his own words. 1. Barth shifted the