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I am not sure I follow you since you presented no supporting scripture. In any case, the faithful remnant of Israel was chosen from the foundation of the world. The rest (like me) are required to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved: "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call...

Scott, there are three clauses in the sentence I quoted. The second was this: "but rather that just as the Lamb of God was slain before the foundation of the world" The lamb was slain "from" [από] the foundation of the world (Rev 13:8), not "before" [πρὸ]. Christ was, however, "foreordained"...

The new covenant is based on love for others. Do you recall the prophet saying God would write his laws in the hearts of the children of Israel and Judah? "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds...

Christ, the husband, died to release Israel, his wife, from the curse of the law, and from the covenant which Israel brake: "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is...

Scott, that assumes you applied "before the foundation of the world" correctly in the second clause, and that you were in fact chosen before the foundation of the world as implied in the third. Rev

I agree. God is the benevolent ruler of living, breathing beings made in his image, not a glorified computer programmer of a bunch of robots. Rev