In treating election and calling as the application of Christ’s redemption, we imply that they are, in God’s decree, logically subsequent to the decree of redemption. As has been noted previously, supralapsarianism suggests the following order of decrees: (1) the decree to save certain people and reprobate others; (2) the decree to create both; (3) the decree to permit the fall of both; (4) the decree to provide in Christ redemption for the elect; and (5) the
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