what is God's elect and is it true that God's elect are the people he has choosen to have faith in Jesus

Answer 1

God's elect are the ones He specifically chose. Only He knows who they are, we don't. As far as faith is concerned, faith is given only by God's grace. Since God's grace is shed upon all people then it's up to them to choose to receive it.

Answer 2

God chose out those for salvation. It is up to Him, not us. God has not shed His grace on all, that is not Biblical. It is not up to us to choose Him. He chooses us, not based on anything we do or will do, or our position in life, but simply out of His grace, mercy and love. God elects, God predestines, the Holy Spirit indwells us, God gives us the faith to believe. It is all a work of God. The nation of Israel was and is also called His "elect".

Psa 105:6 O seed of His servant Abraham; O sons of Jacob, His elect.

Rom 8:28 But we know that to the ones loving God all things work together for good, to those being called according to purpose;
Rom 8:29 because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.
Rom 8:30 But whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Col 3:12 Therefore, as elect ones of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassions, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering,

Rev 17:14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and the ones with Him are the called and elect and faithful ones.

Answer 3

God's elect are those chosen during this present evil age to bless the rest of the world in the age to come.

Answer 4

God's elect is represented by His true born again believers. When the Bible says that God chose these people, it basically means that He foreknew who they would be. Are you part of the elect? If not you can change all that today.

Answer 5

Rev. 14:12 " Here is the patience of the saint: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."

Answer 6

God's Elect are those people God knew in advance would hear the gospel and respond in faith.

As it says in Roman chapter 8, those God knew in advance, those he foreknew, he elected or predestined.

29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

First we hear the Word of God.

Then we descide to believe it.

Then we are saved by Grace which flows in response to our faith.

And since God could see all this in advance, he predestined those who chose to believe.

The thing is, God lives outside of time, and from that point of view he knows what we will do next week and next year.

Pastor Art

Answer 7

If you have a desire to be saved then you are most likely one of the elect. Here are some passages describing where this teaching comes from.

John 6:43 Jesus answered them, "Do not grumble among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Romans 9:16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." 18 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. 19 You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?" 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?" 21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honored use and another for dishonorable use? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory-- 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

Answer 8

why would a real god be so impotent as to create people that he could not choose?