Yes, it needs a chicken to lay the egg, so the chicken had to come first.
The thing about predestination, is that salvation is for everyone who believes. Trouble is only a few believe, point being God knows from the foundation of the earth who those people will be.
All are chosen, but few there be who follow. The choice is theirs, THEY made the right choice the same as we have, but they get a big head thinking they are better than everyone else which is not true.
2 Timothy 1:9 (HCSB)
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He has saved us and called us with a holy calling,
not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.
Isaiah 46:11 (HCSB)
11 I call a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far country.
Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about. I have planned it; I will also do it.
Acts 4:26-28 (HCSB)
26 The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers assembled together against the Lord and against His Messiah.
27 “For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,
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to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.
Romans 8:29-30 (HCSB)
29 For those He foreknew He also
predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 And those He
predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.
THEN YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND what PREDESTINATION IS EXACTLY.
You see GOD knows every decision that we will make in our entire lives, BEFORE TIME BEGAN.
AND CHRIST wrote every single one of us in HIS BOOK OF LIFE, Before HE FORMED THE WORLD, based on HIS FORE KNOWLEDGE.
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You have to EXPAND your opinion TO MAKE IT FIT GOD.
..AS AN ALL KNOWING GOD: and HE is bigger than you think.
There are VARIOUS explanations of the
5 T.U.L.I.P. principles of CALVINISM. So some of this may not fit your Definition.
Yes, I disagree with
Unconditional Election. It is only a half truth at best, and that makes it a full blown lie. Unconditional Election, does not include, "Chose this DAY Home You Will Serve.
Josh. 24:15." AND IT DOES NOT ALLOW GOD TO LOOK DOWN THREW TIME, seeing those who would CHOOSE HIM. HOWEVER, I am from the camp of those WHO believes GOD EXISTS Out Side of TIME AS WE KNOW IT.
Therefore, I believe GOD in HIS Omnipresence, is not only present in every SQUARE INCH OF THE UNIVERSE, 🖝 but ALSO in EVERY SECOND OF TIME as we know it. Therefore HE is PRESENT at Each and every Conversion, and can still Write our names, in the Lamb's Book of LIFE before the foundation of the WORLD.
And I disagree with
Limited atonement, IN THAT, HIS death on the Cross paid for ALL SINS OF MEN, except the ONE UNFORGIVABLE SIN, which is Blaspheming the WORK of the Holy Spirit. Rejecting Christ would constitute Blaspheming the work of the Holy Spirit. Everyone who ends up in HELL, will be GUILTY of that SAME SIN, that is UNFORGIVABLE.