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Steve Sewell, “True Israel – True Election” [Eph 1:4]

September 12, 2017 , Steve Sewell , Comment Closed

All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction While most would agree that Christ is central in both Old and New Testaments, we would not be wrong in…

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Harry A Ironside Answers Questions About Predestination, Election & Assurance

May 1, 2017 , AndrewH , Comment Closed

Below is a Q&A from chapter 9, “Difficulties Which Hinder Full Assurance”, from Henry A Ironside’s 1937 book Full Assurance (works in the public domain): “Sometimes I am afraid that I am predestinated to be damned; if so, I can…

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James White Comments on a Sermon by James McCarthy, Author of John Calvin Goes to Berkeley

January 12, 2015 , Richard Coords , Comment Closed

James White reviewed a sermon by James McCarthy, author of “John Calvin Goes to Berekely,” and this post will review James White’s review. The title of James White’s YouTube clip is “Radio Free Geneva: Ephesians…

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Calvinism vs. Arminianism: Should We Tell Unbelievers That God Loves Them?

December 16, 2014 , Gene Brode, Jr. , Comment Closed

Last week on the way to my small group Bible study at church, I had an interesting conversation with a pastor friend who’s a Calvinist. I said something about hoping my son would get saved…

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Joshua Ratliff, “Ephesians 1:3-4: An Explanation of the Corporate and Christocentric Nature of Election”

March 30, 2013 , SEA , 1 Comment

Please click on the attachment to view Joshua Ratliff, “Ephesians 1:3-4: An Explanation of the Corporate and Christocentric Nature of Election” Ratliff. Ephesians 1.3-4. An Explanation of the Corporate and Christcentric Nature of Election

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Divine Election and Predestination in Ephesians 1

March 29, 2013 , SEA , 1 Comment

With the exception of the ninth chapter of Romans, few passages in the Bible are thought to teach the doctrine of predestination as convincingly as the first chapter of Ephesians. Perhaps equally persuasive are the…

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Ephesians 1:3-6; A Devotional

June 27, 2009 , Martin Glynn , No Comment

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, for we are the blessed in all spiritual blessings, in the heavenly things, in Christ, seeing that He chose us in Him before the inception of the world to be holy and unblemished within His presence in love, thus predestining us into adoption to Him through Jesus Christ, according to the good judgement of His will in praise of His glory and His grace by which He favoured us in love.

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Friday Files: Brian Abasciano’s “Corporate Election in Romans 9: A Reply to Thomas Schreiner”

December 12, 2008 , Godismyjudge , No Comment

In Brian Abasciano’s article Corporate Election in Romans 9: A Reply to Thomas Schreiner, Abasciano corrects Schreiner’s mistaken notion that corporate election denies any place to the individual. He argues that election is primarily corporate…

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