does God choose who will be saved?

Answer 1

God extends the invitation. You must decide whether to accept or reject it.

Answer 2

He chooses those who believe in Christ. The salvation in Him before the foundation of the world is a collective salvation. Thus the doctrine of election, when properly understood, does not make God a puppet master. He saves all who are saved through Christ.

John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 6:44 - No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

1 Timothy 2

1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time


The call is universal. The response is not.

Answer 3

Most certainly, for the Scriptures says: Matt. 24:13, RS: “He who endures to the end will be saved.” (Note that a person’s final salvation is not determined at the moment that he begins to put faith in Jesus).

Also, too Jesus made the statement at Matt. 7:13, 14, RS: “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”

Phil. 2:12, RS: “As you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”

Answer 4

The Bible presents the terms "elect" and "pre-destined" in more than one place. Now, whether this means that God knows who will choose to believe in Him or whether He chooses who will believe in Him may possibly be just a matter of semantics. The fact is that each person makes that choice, and whether those who believe do so because God chose them or just because knew they would choose to believe (or not) is a matter of opinion. Personally, I believe that He chooses, but the choice is still my own to make.

Answer 5

Let us not let this doctrine divide us as it has divided many who should be brothers as WEsley and Whitefield were; a "When in 1739 Wesley preached a sermon on Freedom of Grace, attacking the Calvinistic understanding of predestination as blasphemous, as it represented "God as worse than the devil," Whitefield asked him not to repeat or publish the discourse, as he did not want a dispute. Wesley published his sermon anyway. Whitefield was one of many who responded. The two men separated their practice in 1741.
Wesley wrote that those who held to unlimited atonement [such as himself] did not desire separation, but "those who held 'particular redemption' would not hear of any accommodation."[21] [Meaning that those of the Calvinistic view, would not soften their position at all]."

Answer 6

John 15:16
" You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you."

That should pretty much sum it up.

Answer 7

No. God gives us the right to choose to have him as our personal savior. It is the freedom he gives us. We will come upon many paths in our lives and many choices. He gives us free will to choose. Do you choose him? It is so simple.... Just believe in your heart that Jesus died for your sins, (he died for all our sins so that we may have eternal life...), confess your sins and ask for forgiveness and accept Jesus into your heart. There are a lot of people who think it is not right to accept him. It is not a big deal to accept him into my heart and know for certain where I will be when I die. I still make mistakes and ask for guidance. I am not perfect.

God knows before hand what we will decide, but it us that has to choose for ourselves. God knew about us before we were ever born. He knows everything about us.

Answer 8

Yes, oldguy63 summed it up the best. To add to that about God knowing whom he has chosen. 2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Answer 9

Election refers to God's choosing whom to save. It is unconditional in that there is no condition man must meet before God chooses to save him. Man is dead in trespasses and sins. So there is no condition he can meet before God chooses to save him from his deadness.

We are not saying that final salvation is unconditional. It is not. We must meet the condition of faith in Christ in order to inherit eternal life. But faith is not a condition for election. Just the reverse. Election is a condition for faith. It is becauseGod chose us before the foundation of the world that he purchases our redemption at the cross and quickens us with irresistible grace and brings us to faith.

The unconditionality of God's electing grace is stressed again in Romans 9:15-16, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy."

We really do not understand mercy if we think that we can initiate it by our own will or effort. We are hopelessly bound in the darkness of sin. If we are going to be saved, God will have to unconditionally take the initiative in our heart and irresistibly make us willing to submit to him. (See Romans 11:7.)



God does not foreknow the free decisions of people to believe in him because there aren't any such free decisions to know. If anyone comes to faith in Jesus, it is because they were quickened from the dead (Ephesians 2:5) by the creative Spirit of God. That is, they are effectually called from darkness into light.

So the foreknowledge of Romans 8:29 is not the mere awareness of something that will happen in the future apart from God's predetermination. Rather it is the kind of knowledge referred to in Old Testament texts like Genesis 18:19 ("I have chosen [literally:known] Abraham so that he may charge his children...to keep the way of the Lord"), and Jeremiah 1:5 ("Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations") and Amos 3:2 ("You only [Israel] have I known from all the families of the earth").

Answer 10

No. You choose if you will be saved or not. But God knows beforehand who will come to him and who wont.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, Romans 8:29

Answer 11

no god don't play favorite you will be save if you choose to follow god