Predestination And Free-Will

Who Does The Choosing, Man Or God?

 
Here are some Bible verses that are very clear about this matter of God choosing us – without any approval from us ahead of time:
 

John 15:16 – “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit”

 

John 15:19 – “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”

 

2 Thessalonians 2:13 – “But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth”

 

Matthew 22:14 – “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

 

John 6:44 – “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

 

Psalm 65:4 – “Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee”

 

Acts 13:48 – “And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”

 

James 1:18 – “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”

 
Summary: This article is a section of a much larger article on the Bible doctrines of Election and Predestination called “Who accepts Whom?“. You are urged to check out that larger article for many other thought provoking questions pertaining these “Doctrines of Grace”. — RM Kane
 

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