"All that call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved"
Thats a verse.
Notice the "ALL"?
Thats ALL Inclusive, of every human being who chooses to exercise their Free Will, as =Faith in Christ.
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"For God so loved the World, that He Gave His only begotten Son, that WHOSOVERER Believeth in Jesus, shall not perish, but will have eternal-everlasting life".
Now, pay attention Christophany.
Do you see the word "whosoever" in John 3:16?
Do you have a dictionary? Do you need one?
That word means EVERYONE...... not just the "elect".
See, God's offer of Heaven, is universal. Its an open door for everyone who will BELIEVE in Jesus and be born again.
John 3... "you must be born again".
So......Who goes to Heaven?
= Born again BELIEVERS.
And what does the NT call the Believers?.....It calls them the ' "elect.""
Every believer is "the elect".
This phrase is just the way the Bible, the NT, defines the born again, or the believers.
The pre-destined elect, are created by Grace through Faith, and are born again, and this brings all the born again to a final eternal State.
Understand.... "Salvation"= this eternal situation is pre-determined by God, to have a certain outcome.
The elect, are pre-determined to end up, with God, with a new body, etc.
That is what is pre-destined.....its that the born again, all end up with the same REWARD in the END.
The heretic, who cant understand the verses, probably because they are not born again, reads it like this..
"God pre-determines who will be saved, and who wont be".
But that is not the verse, that is the heretic's twisted teaching of the verse.
The verse, states that the end reward for being born again is pre-determined in every Believer's eternal life, BEFORE they are born.
= God knew who would be a believer, and God has their "elects" reward
The Heretic, can not understand that to KNOW, is not the same as to CAUSE.
God knowing all things before they happen, (the foreknowledge of God) is not the same as causing all things to happen.
Foreknowing is not causing.....Foreknowing is KNOWING, before it happens.
That's God's "Foreknowledge".