OUR ELECTION IS CERTAIN. ERASMUS SARCERIUS: The reason for listing the various causes of our election is so that we may know that it is certain, which it cannot be if it is based on our works or merits. In the same way, neither predestination nor justification nor our redemption would be certain if the causes of these things were in us. Works always have some doubt attached to them, so those who base their salvation on them can never be certain of it in their minds. The sure signs of our election