Post date: Apr 6, 2015 5:26:11 AM
First Reason, God chose to use the election, it is in every book of the Bible. The fact that many of us do not like it or understand it, does not give us the right to cancel or ignore it.
The election is part and parcel of salvation by Grace Through Faith, and without the Election we are back to humanism: "This is my life and I decide if I go to heaven or hell"
That sir, is not possible!
You see God is God!
Sorry about that...
11 (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),
12 it was said to her, “The older shall serve the younger.”
13 As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”
18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
Romans 9:11-20