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  2. Election in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The Old Testament applies the term "elect" (Biblical Greek: ἐκλεκτος; Biblical Hebrew: בָּחִיר) to the Israelites insofar as they are called to be the chosen people, people of God, or faithful to their divine call. The idea of such an election is common in Deuteronomy and in Isaiah 40-66. [1]

  3. Unconditional election - Wikipedia

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    Unconditional election (also called sovereign election [1] or unconditional grace) is a Calvinist doctrine relating to predestination that describes the actions and motives of God prior to his creation of the world, when he predestined some people to receive salvation, the elect, and the rest he left to continue in their sins and receive the just punishment, eternal damnation, for their ...

  4. Predestination in Calvinism - Wikipedia

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    The former is called "unconditional election", and the latter "reprobation". In Calvinism, some people are predestined and effectually called in due time (regenerated/born again) to faith by God, all others are reprobated. Calvinism places more emphasis on election compared to other branches of Christianity. [4]

  5. Corporate election - Wikipedia

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    Election is first and foremost centered in Christ: "He chose us in him" (Ephesians 1:4a). [6] Christ himself is the elect of God. [7] Regarding Christ, God states, "Here is my servant whom I have chosen" (Matthew 12:18; cf. Isaiah 42:1, 6). [8] God audibly declared to Christ's disciples, "This is My Son, My Chosen One; listen to Him!"

  6. Five Points of Calvinism - Wikipedia

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    The five points are popularly said to summarize the Canons of Dort; however, there is no historical relationship between them, and some scholars argue that their language distorts the meaning of the Canons, Calvin's theology, and the theology of 17th-century Calvinistic orthodoxy, particularly in the language of total depravity and limited ...

  7. As a Missouri pastor, my faith guides my vote for president ...

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    Trust me, the phrase “moral majority” that one party uses is more about marketing than it is about substantive scriptural meaning. The Bible says, “All unrighteousness is sin.” Neither ...

  8. How Trump won Pennsylvania’s Amish vote - AOL

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    The effort kicked off days before Election Day, when Burwell-Perry took, in her words, “17 seconds” to whip up a flyer with phone numbers to call for free rides to the polls, launching what ...

  9. Logical order of God's decrees - Wikipedia

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    Reformed Christianity studies the logical order of God's decree to ordain the fall of man in relation to his decree to save some sinners through election and condemn others through reprobation. Several opposing positions have been proposed, all of which have names with the Latin root lapsus (meaning fall), and the word stem (a type of root ...