avoid theology that says a believer was “in Christ” before he was “in Adam” (1 Cor. 15:22).
1. No man is “IN CHRIST” until he is born again. 2. Every man was “IN ADAM” when Adam died. 3. The “elect” were not “IN CHRIST”; they were “aliens,” “alone in the world,” “children of wrath,” “dead in trespasses and sins,” “having no hope,” “without God,” and “unknown” (Gal. 4:7–9; Eph. 2:1, 3, 12). 4. The Greek word for “chosen” (Eph. 1:4) is found in Acts 13:17; Mark 13:20; John 15:19; Romans 9:11, 11:5; 1 Corinthians 1:27, etc.; and there is not one case where it occurs that it ever refers to anything DECREED “before the foundation of the world.” Neither Jacob nor Israel were “chosen...before the foundation of the world.”