According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
"chosen us in Him"..
So, that is "once you are in Him", you are predestined to something.... .So, that is not to be chosen to be in Him.
See, almost all of this that you posted is "once you are IN HIM" ... and that is the Foreknown by God., not the predestination of Calvin.
God Knows who is going to be "in Christ", (Foreknowledge}.... and then from that spiritual birth, many things are predestined to happen later.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Again... the verse is showing that the predestining happens..... "by Jesus Christ to Himself"., happening first.
So, that is again, to become "in Christ"... whereby the Adoption is found..that is predestined.
We are not Adopted to be born again, next. We are born again, that produces the "Adoption of Children"... that is "predestined.""
Its, """IN Christ"""first..., and that is our faith, is accepted, to be born again "In Christ...., and then this predestines the adoption that is created BY the spiritual birth.....= that leads to the SUBSEQUENT = predestination.
And the "good pleasure of His Will" is that all would become "to Himself"...(all would BELIEVE)..... as that is the Spiritual union with God, through Christ. as "Faith is counted by God as RIGHTEOUSNESS".
God will this for everyone, as John 3:16.
God sent Jesus to save the world of sinners, but not all will believer, even tho God want them all .....But he allows us to CHOOSE>.
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Yes, that is Grace through Faith, that is the mercy of God, whereby we come to God through Christ, by our Faith... and that is why we are "accepted in the Beloved".
None of this is predestined, but it is all "Foreknowledge"..
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Notice this verse does not say anyone is predestined, and it does not say anything about the elect.
It says WE.. have forgiveness, according to the Riches of God's Grace.
And that
WE = is "All who will believe in Jesus, shall be saved" .. which is the Grace of God that receives a Believer's Faith, as "righteousness".
Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Yes its the wisdom of God that is Justification by Faith.
He created Salvation this way, because it does not allow the person any chance to earn it or lose it.
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
I explained this earlier.....
The "inheritance" is predestined, based on FIRST becoming a Christian by giving God our Faith in Christ, that God accepts to then give you the "Gift of Salvation"..
Its not the Salvation that is predestined, its the inheritance that is predestined to be given later... to all who Trust in Christ by Faith and are born again...
first.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Notice that the "conforming" is the predestinating, not the becoming a Christian.
And God foreknew that once you become a Believer, by your Faith in Christ that God accepts, then you are predestined to become "conformed" and you are predestined to receive an "inheritance".
So, the Foreknowledge is God knowing who is going to Trust in Christ and the predestining, is what God gives you, after you do.
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Notice the verse says......whom He (God) did predestinate.
But it does not say, to BECOME what..
So, what is the predestined part?
Same as before.......The born again, are afterwards predestined to become "conformed" and receive the "inheritance".
The Salvation, is not predestined..>its FOREKNOWN.......God knows who is going to trust in Christ, and when they do, there is a predestined outcome that comes LATER.
Notice it says.... Whom He Called.......but it does not say The calling was predestined.....
It says that they are CALLED, and that is The Cross of Christ, that is always drawing unbelievers... as "whosoever will Believe", and that is John 3:16.
God Foreknows, who is going to trust in Jesus, and once they do, they are predestined to be "conformed into the image of Christ", and "given an inheritance", as that is what you get from God once you are born again. Its your "Adoption".
What Calvin did and what Tulip does, is it tries to "Predestine" what is Foreknown by God, and that wont work... as to Fore Know, is not to Pre-destine.
So, we see that being Born again, is fore-known by GOD..., and what happens after a person is born again, is pre-destined.
Demonic Calvinism, has the "fore-knowing" redefined as "pre-destined", and that is the core ROT of the John Calvinism and TULIP Theology.
Calvin tried to predestine what God only fore-Knew, and that is the Devil's Lie that Calvinism, teaches.
I know some of you are sitting there blinking...
Let me show you the simple clarity.
The BIBLE, the NT says that we are in the "time of the Gentiles" and it teaches that the Tribulation is coming".
Now, that is the BIBLE KNOWING, what is going to happen Next.. That is The Bible's FORE-KNOWLEDGE.
Its to know before it happens, everything that will happen next.
Now, is that the bible pre-destining it to happen?.. Is the Bible causing Jesus to Die on the Cross and The Great Trib is on the way?
NO.. That is the Bible revealing it....as knowledge of all that is going to happen next.
Now if i said..>"see there, the Bible is causing it to happen, the bible is pre-destining it to happen".
No its not...>Its just revealing to you what is coming, next.
And that is God's Fore-KNOWLEDGE.
God for-knew who is going trust in Christ., but he didnt predestine it.
Calvin has it all predestined, and then Tulip and Hyper Calvinism, took it right into Hell by teaching that The CROSS itself is predestined to only be given to SOME sinners, but not to ALL who will believe..
"only SOME can believe...." the Cross is only for SOME"..
See that? That is "pre-destined elect" "doctrines of devils".......its a CROSS DENYING LIE FROM HELL.
And ... This is why Calvinists falsely believe they are Chosen to believe, when in fact they are only predestined to be conformed and given an inheritance after THEY Give THEIR Faith in Christ to God.. .first., and He gives them Salvation.
No one is predestined to be born again.....they are only Fore-KNOWN by God, as He knows who is going to trust in Christ, even before they are born.
And after they do trust in Christ, by FREE WILL.....God has a pre-destined outcome for them, that is to be "conformed into the image of Christ and receive The Inheritance".
Calvin pre-destined it all, and that is why Calvin's LIES.... are a "doctrine of devils".