so does god choose the ones who will be saved through his grace?

Answer 1

Yes

Sorry, but that is a huge part of the message of God and his word and his will and his way.

Now, God has chosen many who have in turn rejected him using their own free will.

Biblically some that God did not choose. Esau, brother of Jacob. Cain, brother of Abel
Biblically, God did not choose them because their hearts were not for God, but for their own self desires and thougths.

As always, its about the heart.

Answer 2

Where do ppl get the foolish notion God is partial?

Of 2 Gods portrayed, there's no partiality with either:
By Law (OT God): ALL perish, NONE live afterward.
By Grace (NT God): NONE perish, ALL live afterward.

As in Adam(them: Gen 5): ALL DIE, and NONE LIVE
Even so in Christ(Rom 10): shall ALL be made ALIVE

What part of it's GLOBE-ALL did you not get?
What goes round also comes around:
If law goes round, death comes around.

There is NO respect of persons with God & Son.
So either all are saved(graced) or else none are.

God our Saviour will have ALL men saved(graced);
AND ALL men aware what they're saved from : law.

The grace(only) of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 3

The thing about free will is that you can choose weather or not to sun bathe or hide in the shadows..

God is equal to all, and bias to non. It is your choice weather or not to seek salvation. But seek and you will find.

Many people seek only sensual gratification in order to satisfy themselves. Such gratification is not lasting, like a drug hit.

All the world is after sense gratification, and so those seeking it fight each other for whats availible. Such fights always lead to winners and losers. It is the losers who turn to God's scriptures when no answers to their questions are found. This is how God chooses you, when you lose you then look for answers.

Remeber the parable about the two brothers who get their inheritence from their father. The younger brother spends his and ends up eating with the pigs. Such sin led to him realising that his father would look after him, and that eating with the pigs wasn't necessary.

The father killed the fattest calf for a feast upon the lost son's return. Even the most wastefull sining is forgotten by the father when the son seeks forgiveness and has learnt his lesson.

Answer 4

Yes.

The "elect of God" include everyone whom he chooses to grace.

But some refuse God's grace, and are lost.

Answer 5

God wants all of His children to come to Him and unite with Him.However there are the elect that God chose in the beginning to be leaders and teachers to us.I have witness upheavel in the church because of the false teachings that only those that are chosen are going to heaven.Those that teach this lie will feel Gods wrath.

Answer 6

No. That's an idea unheard of in the Church much before the 1400's - and John Calvin missed the boat on that one. Double predestination is a false doctrine. We have free will.

Answer 7

No. but He does know who will choose His Grace. Just like He knew that when satan tempted Judas, Judas would take the 300.00 (=30pieces of silver at that time) and run.

Answer 8

No,God gives his grace and His gift of free will to us.

Answer 9

this is debated heavily in the Christian community. I believe God initiates salvation. You cannot come to know Christ initially. Jesus said, "No one can come to the Me unless the Holy Spirit draws them" but I think that when this happens you exercise free will in accepting or rejecting God's offer. Its very hard for me to grasp God creating someone and "pre programing" them to reject Him. Again, this is debated and both sides have very good points. Its somthing to debate not divide over.

Answer 10

The ones that praise him. Both god and Jesus are more impressed with hearing praise from you, than whether you sin or not.
Sin can be wiped out, but if you don't praise Jesus, he is not amused, and you go to Hell; there to burn and rot forever.