Featured God is absolute.

God is not a respecter of persons. So far NOBODY can answer why God chose to save them without implying the false doctrine that salvation is by works. Why did God save you?

 

What you are missing is "why did God create". Paul says in Romans 9 and in Ephesians 3:9-10 it was to reveal His mercy and wrath along with His manifold wisdom to the heavenly authorities. Sin is the only way to contrast mercy and reveal wrath. The fact that God arbitrarily chose you for this purpose shows that you had nothing to do with it. And He receives all the glory so many people claim for themselves.

 

It's arbitrary by his teaching on the subject. You had nothing to do with your damnation in Adam or your salvation in Christ.

 

LOL. Yes I did. I said because He loved me, though I was dead in sin—or a stinking bag of worms, as Luther once penned. That does not imply any loveliness in me. What work did I do?

He loved Jacob. Does that imply something lovely about him that God preferred him to Esau?

Being no respecter of persons doesn't mean He doesn't love people. It means the worldly status or lineage of someone has no bearing on His mercy or His indignation.

Anyway, you need to shut up, or at the very least declare yourself a noncalvinist. This vomitus you're belching is not the Gospel.

 

God hates sinners. He elected those whom He hated so through Christ He could love us subjectively. His glory is greatest when He shows mercy to those He hates. You share His glory is you as a putrid sinner were lovable.

 

Baloney. You got a carnal kink in your think, rejecting even the sincere milk of the word and reducing Redemption to a mechanism enabling divine narcissism.

I didn't say I was lovable, or even lovely. I said God loved me with love divine. With Him, all things are possible.

 

People only reveal what they are by hating and insulting others. It takes away their front, leaving their subject untouched.

 

Bless you. You can overcome this by making love the determining factor for what you say.

 

Remember. one lump is being sent to hell to display God's wrath among other attributes. From that same lump, an arbitrary selection of hell-bound sinners was spared to display God's mercy. This included Christ suffering in their place. Now, why did God choose to save you?

 

You are missing out on why God created the universe and all it contains. It was for His glory. To make Himself known to the Heavenly Host. So it is not arbitrary that He sends sinners to Hell. But His choice between who He sends to Hell or Heaven is. He is no respecter of persons.

 

No where in scripture does it teach God does anything arbitrarily.

Once again, you have mentioned the Romans passage concerning the potter and the clay.

Please answer directly. Does that passage say God molded the two and then afterward arbitrarily chose one for honorable and one for common use? No, it does not.

It says God molded from the same lump, one for honorable and one for common use. God is clearly making each for a different purpose. His purpose and will for each is determined before He starts the molding. It is not arbitrary. It is a deliberate work of God in molding each for a different purpose.

Peace to you

 

That is simply false. Several people have answered you directly and no one “implies” works salvation. You simply refuse to even address the arguments in an intellectually honest way.

Scripture tells us God choses according to His will and purpose. The choices of our God are not arbitrary. They are not random.

No need for me to continue with this.

peace to you

 

If God is no respecter of persons, you had nothing to do with your damnation or your subsequent salvation.

 

If God is no respecter of persons, you had nothing to do with your damnation is Adam, or your subsequent salvation in Christ.

 

For His glory. And that is part of Romans 9 and Ephesians 3...

 

Did anyone suggest or say God's election was based on God discerning a person's goodness? Nope - so obfuscation on display.
Does scripture say God chooses people for salvation through their faith in the truth? Yes, 2 Thessalonians 2:13. So in Election God is not arbitrary, but definite.
Does scripture say our faith if good enough, merits salvation? Nope, it says the opposite, salvation does not depend on the person who wills or does things to be saved, but only upon God. Romans 9:16.
Does scripture say our faith is according to grace? Yes Romans 4:16

Bottom line, God is never arbitrary, His choices are according to His purpose.