The Bible Verse Romans 9: 11
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Romans 9: 11
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Loading ...(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
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So that rather than their status before God being based on works it would be based on foreseen faith or lack thereof, as Paul has already explained in chapter 8, 8:29 “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.” As he says again in 11:2 “God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.” As Peter says in 1st Peter 1:2 “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,” for election is never presented as arbitrary in Scripture, but is always based on God’s foreknowledge that the individual in question would have faith if God sent his Son to the cross and got this gospel to that person. So, rather than being based on works, it is based on foreseen faith (foreseen on a condition, not as absolute as if it would happen with no input from God).