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why would you say this?
do you not believe at the very least you are elected to salvation? --God has chosen those who are in Christ to be His people (I have chosen you, you have not chosen me. I shall call those who were not a people my people).
why say it like that chris? To me, that was the logical conclusion and was meant as an insight. But, if I offend by the way I said it, I apology to you and anyone else.
it's that kind of thing that doesn't help at all. --Yes, I am sorry.
there are passages we absolutely have to see are in scripture.
we may never agree on what they mean, but election is God's idea, and His plan.
whatever it means.
even if you believe He saw in eternity past that you chose Him, and He elected you on that basis, it still means He elected you. and if "elite elect" is the way you deride that, so be it. --I remember someone, I think Psychomom, who said: the few, the elect (something along that line) and thus: elite elect.
Romans 8
26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, becausef the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,g for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.