THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

 What is gravity; from where did it come? Wikipedia says: “gravity is the most significant interaction between objects at the macroscopic scale, and it determines the motion of planets, stars, galaxies, and even light… particle physics imply that the earliest instance of gravity in the universe, possibly in the form of quantum gravity, supergravity or a gravitational singularity, along with ordinary space and time”

Science is in search of “the theory of everything.”

For whom they search, theists have found. God is “the truth of everything:”

John 1:3

All things were made by him (God) and without him was not any thing made that was made.

God is “ALMIGHTY;” literally that means He “deals violently!”

God is the “QUANTUM” that shook all things instantaneously (Planck’s Epoch) that caused quantum gravity to hold things in their places perfectly.

Now consider “the truth of everything:”

Job 11:7

Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the Almighty unto perfection?

Revelation 11:17 (KJV)

Saying, We give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because you have taken to yourself your great power, and has reigned.

The QUANTUM “Almighty “ God was the source of power that in no time created all things then held them in place by His gravity (weightiness).

“In the creation, time did not exist,” according to Michio Kaku.

“Weightiness” in the Hebrew is “kabod.” It is translated “glory.”

The glory of God is “the theory of everything “ for which science searches.

What is gravity? The glory of God; His perfection that makes and holds things in their places.

“A quantum is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction” (Ibid).

The QUANTUM is the action that started everything. The “Super Gravity” or Almightiness of the “Virtual Particle” that alone existed before all things.

The “Entity” or “Existence” (Jehovah) is the QUANTUM, or one true Entity, that used gravity to make all things and hold them in their places.

God used His weak force field in a great amount of quanta to overcome the strong force fields in sub-atomic particles to make atoms and Adams.

The glory of God from the New Testament would be the virtue (dynamos). His "Dynamic" was almighty good works... "very good" (Gen 1:29). The glory of God is His virtue that made all things good and held them in their places. It is the gravity that provided order along geodesic time/space lines. It is the Virtue that God used to make sinners whole again and to hold them in their places by faith, the glorious gift of God.

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COMING SHORT OF GLORY

 Speaking of righteousness and faith, Paul wrote:

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (Rom 3:23:4)

Sinned is trespassed or missing the mark. A mark is required for entry into Paradise.

 The mark was to be in the Image of God. Remade (regeneration) is “born again” (engendered from above). 

A mark must be on you to find the Way to Paradise.

 

Difference between heaven and Paradise: 

Man was made in the Image of God. That is gloriousness. 

Coming short of the glory of God is no longer in His Image — naked and ashamed.

 

Nakedness: 

Gloriousness is naked without shame. (Gen 2:25). “Uncovered” (transparent). 

Whatever flesh they had was transparent. They were “very good” (Gen 1:29) or glorious (splendor) because within they were the Image of God.

 Then the two were ashamed of their nakedness (blushing: their Image concealed). 

Concealed with what? Fig leaves. (Not enough) 

They had lost their glory. No longer could the Image of God (His Genome) be seen because it had changed to be like the old creature.

 

Flesh:

 

Apparently, the flesh of the Serpent (Lucifer) was inglorious and the image inside cunning. 

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them. (Gen 3:21) 

God by grace clothed them; perhaps with both lambs skins and with grace.

 

Grace: 

Grace is unmerited favor, and it was not by their own hands but a gift of God: “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8). 

Because God made them flesh, they would trust in Him which is exercised as faith. 

They could now eat firm things (Gen 3:17) and became foragers like the beasts of the field because inwardly they were vipers — cold blooded. 

They came short of the glory, or Image, of God (selem). 

They had acquired the image of Satan (nahas).

 

The images: 

Mankind would become first an eater of herbs and meat, not manna from heaven as before. 

When some look into a mirror; they see beautiful. I see myself as ugly! I know what is within and for that I am humble. 

We are to, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10)

 

Glorification: 

We are to admit our ingloriousness, and God will glorify us. 

Regeneration (re-glorification): 

“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17) 

Glorification is an inside out process beginning with rebirth and with completion at the rapture. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOLLOW-UP ON ELECTION

I do believe in the doctrine of election but not as an autocratic process used by an unfair sovereign; and that God allows us to have a desire to serve Him without coercion. 

Why is election important? Because some believe that once elected always elected. That is an unsafe perspective, so it must be refuted. (More about “eternal security” in a later commentary.)

 

ABOUT JESUS: 

Speaking of the future Savior, Isaiah wrote God’s word; “Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon Him: He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles” (Isa 42:1). 

When testing the veracity of scripture, I consider the Hebrew pre-eminent to either the English or the Greek. There is evidence of which I have written before that Hebrew is the first alphabet, albeit the Greek added the first vowels. 

The key word of interest therein is the “elect” given that “Mine” in that passage is Yahweh God Himself.

 

ABOUT US: 

The general accepted meanings are both “chosen” and “selected,” according to most lexicons. Likewise, the “elect” in the Greek is similar: 

(Christians) Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you; and above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness” (Col 3:12-14) 

Elect, therein is “eklektos” in the Greek language, meaning the “choice” or “select.” In both cases, the Hebrew and the Greek, “somebody” chose the righteous to be righteous. 

Election is not how it is thought of in contemporary times. Webster agrees with the translators; Election is “carefully selected; chosen.” There is no voting nor even an interview!

 

ELECTION PROCESS: 

In this age, election is thought of more as a contest wherein the majority democratically pick and choose. On the other hand, kings early in history picked and chose because they were the sovereigns. Likewise, the LORD GOD is sovereign… having supreme power. Only God chooses and he uses His own criteria. 

According to God from the Book of Isaiah, God’s criteria was “the one in whom His Soul delights.” The Elected One was Jesus in whom, “I have put My Spirit upon Him.” 

Simply put is that the Invisible God chose who He wanted to choose to put His Spirit upon. There was no election at all in a political sense.

 

THE FIRST ELECTION: (ADAM) 

Where have we heard that firstly? 

²⁶ God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. (Gen 1:26-28)

Adam was the “elected” in the beginning, even before the foundation of the world, and in my opinion, before time began with the advent of sin. However, “Adam” was two beings, one male and one female. They were mankind and their seed, or progeny, would be the chosen ones. 

God had put His Spirit upon the male Adam and the male put the Spirit of God into the female. The mechanism of that is unknown but rest assured that it was done.

 

JESUS ELECTED: 

That was for the first Adam. The “last Adam” was chosen in the same manner. God “blessed” Jesus with His Image at the baptism. Luke said it best; “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a Voice came from heaven, which said, ‘You are My beloved Son; in you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22). 

God told Isaiah of that coming event, “I have put my Spirit upon Him.” It was God’s plan all along, long before Jesus came, that the Person of Jesus would be the elected one: Speaking of Jesus Paul wrote to Peter, “Who (Jesus) verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you… (1 Pet 1:20) 

Just like Adam, Jesus was ordained (blessed) at the same time as Adam; hence Jesus was the “last Adam” and the “quickening Spirit” in the first Adam that gave life to him.

 

THE UNCHOSEN: 

Christ was in Adam from the beginning. Who was chosen? Not the angels nor the beasts, but Adam’s kind. Both the male and the female were made alive by the quickening Spirit of Christ.

 

THE CHOSEN ONES: 

Mankind, and mankind alone, were chosen. The angels had been chosen but failed. God would not allow that to happen again! He had mercy on mankind and preserved them for the time when Jesus would come to quicken them again. It is now Jesus above that quickens the Spirit onto mankind; it is Jesus who has the authority of God, sitting as His right hand in power. 

God, because of His foreknowledge, used divine selection to determine the dominant species (Darwin called it “natural selection.”) 

His criteria for election were these:  Those who He knew would, ““Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” God was not talking about biological reproduction but spiritual replication. 

Jesus said to the eleven of the twelve chosen apostles, “Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). The eleven were among the first of the twelve “elect.” God knew that they would “be fruitful and multiply,” and they did so! 

The Spirit of them has been replicated billions of times since then. God knew who would perform and who would not, so Jesus did not just pick and choose just any person but went where he needed to find them for the occasion. 

Judas was an “elect” one as well, but although elected, he failed. God did not make him fail but chose Judas because He knew that he had the love of money in him. 

With that said, the “elect” can fail! God calls everyone but many fail Him! God called Judas to multiply living souls but he multiplied money.

 

THE ELECT CAN FAIL: 

“There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (Mat 24:24). 

God knows who is capable of what, but because of free will, they may not go with their calling. 

We all know of people who are called to preach. God chose them. However, look at the many who were called but do not perform. Judas was one of those.

 

FRIENDS CAN FAIL: 

God said in the 41^st Psalm: “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me” (verse 9). 

The LORD GOD picked a friend to perform. — a safe peaceful person. Judas once had affection for Christ but although one of the “elect,” Satan entered him because of his love of money, and the friend of Jesus defected. He was elected but failed to perform according to the standards for the elect: with holiness, love, merciful, kindness, humbleness, meekness, longsuffering; forbearance, and forgiveness.

 

APOSTASY: 

Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. (1 Tim 4:1-2) 

“Depart” in there is “aphistemi” — “to withdraw oneself from” (Strong 2006). 

Not God departing but us withdrawing. 

If that is not enough, consider “falling away” (Heb 6:6)… “apostasia” — defection (ibid) from once having affection. 

The “familiar friend” of Jesus — Judas — defected. One of the first elect defected from Jesus and went to Satan. 

SECURITY VS. SAFETY: 

Election, therefore, is not eternal security. 

Who is the elect? Because God is not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34), then everyone is elected. John wrote about that, “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). 

Again, all “persons” are elected but it is conditional; it requires belief (pisteuo) — one who trusts God (ibid).

 

SUMMARY: 

·        God is LORD; He calls whom He calls and no other.

·        God called all mankind.

·        Those called must respond.

·        Those that respond must conform and carry on.

·        The elect are safe but security depends on them.

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HARD TEACHING: THE WALKING DEAD

God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom 5:8)

 

Wishing that you were dead will never happen for the soul is immortal. Wishing for death is asking for isolation from God.   

Mankind were all guilty, but by transference Jesus assumed their sins so they need not die. He took on all our sins: 

Jesus, Who His own self bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.  (1 Pet 2:24) 

As Jesus received His wounds, virtue left Him that was transferred to mankind. As He was reduced, we were “made whole.” (Hold onto that thought for a moment.) 

First off, “Christ died for us.” In the Greek, it is “apothnesko.” 

He died… “apo-thenesko”— separated; a dead man. 

Jesus had been alive. Paul’s questioners in front of Felix were superstitious, or so it seemed; that “Jesus, which was dead (thnesko), whom Paul affirmed to be alive (zao)” (Act 25:19). Rather than apo, Jesus was said to be zao. He was undead; he had been “quickened:” 

  For Christ also had once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death (thantoo) in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. (1 Pet 3:18) 

Quickened is zoopoieo in the Greek: zoon-poieo; once alive, being made alive again. 

Once separated; being assembled again. 

Paul said to the Romans, “Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion (dominance) over Him” (Rom 6:9) 

Raised therein comes from the base Greek word, egeíro: “collecting one’s faculties.” Jesus was made whole again. He had been “disassembled” at the crucifixion, “And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost: (Mark 15:37). 

Crucify comes from the root verb stauroo — “to impale.” When Jesus was crucified, He was pierced (or impaled). He was cut apart releasing what? Blood and water. 

Jesus was cut apart before He was pieced, as His Body gave up its Ghost. The crucifixion did not kill God; He had not been terminated but disassembled so that He could no longer exist, or to be both God and Man in One. 

The daughter of Jarius who had her spirit leave her. Her body and spirit were separated, but Jesus made her whole again. Her “death” was merely when her soul was cut apart from her body She was made “whole again” when her spirit returned to her. 

Remember from an earlier commentary of mine that Jesus lost blood, but what was the water? When He was on the Cross, the Ghost left Him, but when Longinus pierced Jesus the Power of God in Jesus was spilled on the ground. 

What happened? 

And when the centurion, which stood over against Him, saw that He so cried out, and gave up the Ghost, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39) 

He had been the genetics (Genome) of Yahweh; now He was not. God had been separated from Him. 

The centurion saw the Holy Ghost leave Jesus. He saw the disassembly of the Triune God. His Ghost went to Paradise that day and His Power went to the ground. 

Remember Adam? That was first of the anthropoidal beings. Like his kind, the ground was Adam as well. The blood and virtue of Jesus had redeemed Adam for his dust had returned to the ground; perhaps right there since it was the “place of the skull.” Whose skull? The cranium of Adam. 

In my book, The Place of the Skull, I submitted that when the ground quaked, it was Adam who was quickened. If so, then the first saint to arise with Jesus was Adam. 

Adam had not died but had just been disassembled awaiting his Savior. Adam and all his kind were redeemed that day. 

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (1 Cor 15:45) 

Jesus quickened the soul of Adam. His blood was the genes of God in Him and water was the quickening Spirit that made alive again. 

The point to this commentary is that death is not the end of anything. It is merely separation form God. That separation is Hell. Hell is therefore death, but in Hell death never ends. The soul suffers; that is “death.” 

To be made alive again first we must die to the world, then quickened by God reborning you again. "You must be born again" (John 3:7). You must be quickened with the Spirit of Jesus. 

Death is without the soul ever undergoing quickening. Thus, life is the quickening Spirit entering the decadent soul of a sinner to be made alive again. 

Jesus quickened for our “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25); genetic sins proceeding from the original sin. The subsequent sins are justified; we still sin but they are not counted against Christians who endeavor not to sin, but still knowing that we might fail. 

Earlier I mentioned a Greek word with great significance: “apothnesko.”… apo-thenesko”— separated; a dead man. 

The “second death” is separating from God to become dead to Him again. 

Hebrews 6:6: A “falling away” is apostasia; a defection from God and Jesus was only crucified once. Hence, those who defect from once having affection for God are damned (reprobate) — the walking dead. That are alive, yet dead. 

Adam “died” when He lost His glory. He lied as the walking dead. He was revived when Jesus gave up His own Glory to the ground; to revive all of Adam’s kind. So, death is not a biological thing but a disassociation from God.

 

 

HARD TEACHING: THE WATER AND BLOOD

Salvation is about both the water and blood of Jesus who came by both water and the blood: 

⁶ This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.

⁷ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

⁸ And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (1 John 5:6-8) 

The “three-in-one” is the triune God, the “Godhead” of “Holy Trinity.” Somehow the triune God consists of three substances: Spirit, water, and blood. 

The three that bears record are the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. Let’s pick them off one at a time; the Holy Ghost seems to be the Spirit of God. Both are indeed, “pneuma” in the Greek. The Holy Ghost is a “fragment” of the Holy Spirit in Jesus in the “bodily shape” of His Person: “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a Voice came from heaven, which said, ‘You are My beloved Son; in you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22). 

Therefore, the Holy Spirit is the substance of the Holy Ghost in Jesus that was the Image of God in Him. 

What was the substance of the Image of God? (Gen 1:27) “God created man in His own Image, in the Image of God.” 

“Image” therein is “Selem” in the Hebrew. It is always best to examine the literal meaning of the original text; not versions of it; Selem means “to shade” and figuratively it would mean a “phantom”  (Strong 2006). 

Now for some philosophy. Plato’s answer to what is truth from “The Allegory of the Cave” is that the shadow of a man is a “fragment” of the man. Therefore, that Jesus is “Truth” is that the Holy Ghost is a fragment of the man. That agrees with the scripture above. Indeed, the triune God’s Phantom Image is a fragment of the Godhead, or Holy Trinity. 

Therefore, the Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit of God. That takes care of one substance of God. 

From John 1:1-14 it is known that “The Word” is the Person of God, Jesus. His Person was independent of His Substance. The Word was the “Voice” that walked in the Garden in the Image of a man; “They heard the Voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the cool of the day” (Gen 3:8). 

Hence, two substances of the Godhead are known: (1) the Spirit — the Holy Ghost — and (2) the Word. 

That leaves the third substance to be defined: that is “The Father” figure. The “Father” is the Creator; therefore, He is the Power. In the Greek, that Power is the “Virtue” of God, or in the Greek, “Dynamis.”  Because all the things of the Father were “very good” (Gen 1:29), then the Power of God was very good. God’s “Dynamic” was good, or virtuous. 

So the third substance of God is “Goodness” agreeing with the Word, Jesus, who said, “Why call you Me good? none is good, save one, that is, God” (Luke 18:9). 

However, God is also Light: “God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Virtue is therefore Light and Light is Power. Power drives any process, including the Creation. 

Since Jesus in the manner of Adam has the Image of God within (1 Cor 15:45), then when Jesus is looked upon, God is manifested. 

Jesus said to Philip, “He that has seen Me has seen the Father…” (John 14:9). 

The “Father” was in Jesus. He was the Power or Virtue in the Person of God. When Jesus healed the people, raised the dead, and made the sick whole again; that was the “Father” in Him. 

Paul told the Romans that he had worked many wonders, “by the power of the Spirit of God… I have fully preached the gospel of Christ” (Rom 15:19). 

Therein is the triune Godhead: Power, Spirit, and Christ. 

It is difficult to think of a “substance” as Power but so it is. Indeed, God is “Light.” 

Now consider, “there are three that bear witness in earth: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood.” 

Spirit = Ghost.

Blood = Jesus.

Then, water must represent the Power of God. 

Jesus said to the woman at the well, “He that believes on Me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38) 

“But his spoke He of the Spirit” (John 7:39). Therefore the “water” is not the Spirit per se but the “living water” — the Dynamic and Power of the Spirit flowing. 

“Water” in that passage is metaphoric.

From where in scripture did that come? “…the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook” (Prov 18:4). 

The “wellspring” is figuratively the source of life. God once created man by what? 

“There went up a mist from the Earth and watered the whole face of the ground, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground” (Gen 2:6-7). 

The LORD GOD formed man from the wellspring of living water. That “wellspring” is the Power of God that made man a living soul. 

That “water” was special. It was a “vapor” or Dynamic Spirit of God that formed Adam, and as the “last Adam” that was in the womb of Mary to form Jesus. 

“Water” (mayim in the Hebrew) is figuratively “semen” (ibid). God divided the “semen” from the “semen” to make things. 

Not only was God light, but He was “husbandman” as well, according to Jesus, “

I am the true Vine, and My Father is the Husbandman” (John 15:1) 

In the Hebrew, the “Husbandman” is the ‘IS (pronounced eesh). That means that God is the “extant” one (ibid); He is “Existence” and all things came from Him. 

“Husbandry” is a vocation nowadays. Husbandry is mostly selective breeding to improve herds and crops. Husbandry is about genetics, and not by coincidence so is the Christian doctrine of rebirth — “Marvel not,” said Jesus, “you must be born again” (John 3:7). 

That is animal husbandry. It is people improvement, literally “born again” is “engendered from (God) above.” 

People improvement is making mankind whole again, or glorious like Adam was designed to be — a man with God within Him, “in Christ” so to speak. 

The “Vine” is conductance. People improvement emanates from the Father to Jesus then unto the lost who are the “branches” as Jesus said, “I am the Vine, you are the branches” (John 15:5). The living water emanates from the Father to the Son to imbue Christians. 

The blood of Jesus is the “wine,” representing the genome of the Father in Jesus.via the blood, and the water represents the “wellspring” of the “semen” (the genetics) of God through the Vine to the branches to imbue Christians with the Spirit of God. 

Born again is that “living water” that flows from the Father, to the Son, and into us. It must proceed from the belly of Jesus for the circuit to be complete… Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). 

Jesus is “The Tree of Life.” Whatever fruit that grew on it represents the Virtue from the “belly” of Jesus. The Vine is the tree trunk, the branches Christians, the root, the Father, and the mist from below to grown the fruit is the living water dynamic within the tree for the healing of the nations (ethnos in the Greek) — the genetics of anyone. 

Perhaps the “Tree of Life” is Jesus sharing the living water of God to all who would drink of it (John 4:10).

SUMMARY: 

The “water” therefore is “born again” — engendered by God above via Jesus the Vine. It is the Dynamic of Jesus as the “Aquaduct” for life to us from the Father. It conducts the genetic of the Father to us the “branches” and the blood flows from the Vine to us. The “water” is the dynamic that transports the genetics of God to mankind.

HARD DOCTRINE: ELECTION

 ELECTION: 

In Christianity, particularly within the theological framework of Calvinism, election involves God choosing a particular person or group of people to a particular task or relationship, especially eternal life. (Wikipedia) 

The doctrine of election has two sides: 

1.      Dependent on a person’s faith

2.      Unconditional. 

The doctrine of election is for particular people decided before the foundation of the world: 

(Ephes 1:4-5) He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

Predestination is decided beforehand. When was that? Before the foundation of the world. What did God do? He chose us…. Some to not be something and others to be something. 

“Us” as it turns out from Ephesians 1:1 are the saints. God did not choose the unsaintly, but the saintly. 

Now consider this: Is it coincidence that God chose only those who attend Calvinistic churches. Are most of them already damned, and if so, why do they still attend God and worship Him? 

Calvinism is an irrational doctrine. It implies that God has a cruel and that His grace was bestowed long ago before time even began. 

What would that make both the lost and Christians? Mindless “robots” who tread a treadmill until the mechanisms fail. 

“Election” is God choosing the saints leaving everybody else out before they even had a chance to believe. 

FOREKNOWLEDGE: 

Calvinists explain that by the concept of “foreknowledge.” 

Paul wrote to Peter about God’s foreknowledge. Speaking of strangers throughout the world, Paul said about some of the, “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ” (1 Pet 1:2-3). 

BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: 

It seems that before the foundation of the worlds, God sanctified the souls of some with His Spirit. 

Now look before time ever began. Where to go for that? Genesis. 

Who was set apart before the foundation of the world. Who was sanctified? Who was to be the obedient ones? 

“Sanctification” is literally “made holy.” Who was it that God made holy? 

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. (Gen 1:26-27)

 

THE PLAN FOR US: 

When did God say that? Before He did so… “Let us make.” That was His plan. 

Who did God choose? Mankind. Who was left out? The angelic kingdom had already been divided by their own choices; next the fish, fowl, cattle, and all other kinds were left out. 

They were not made holy (in the image of God). 

The “our likeness” are the elohim — the righteous angels that were spirit. What were different about them that became common to mankind? Thy were spiritual creatures. 

God had a plan for us. God said: 

I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the Lord, “thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jer 29:11) 

Predestination provides no hope. Does God lie? 

God was speaking to all that had been carried away to Babylon. (Jer 29:1). He did not select just a few, but by their own will most stayed in Babylon.

 

FREE WILL: 

Mankind was created with free will. God had gave them a will to please Him or to please themselves; whether to eat of the forbidden tree, or not.

 

SUMMARY: 

The “elect” is everyone; all of mankind; not any of the others of the animal kingdom. His plan for us was for us to be saints… mankind alone, and everybody of that kind. 

God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believes in Him (Jesus) should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16) 

There is a condition for eternal life — for the making of a saint. 

Among the whosoever (every person of our kind) the condition is belief (trust, faith) in Jesus (the “Him.”)