A Bit About Election

God's sovereignty and man's free will are friends, not enemies.

I will be back in the saddle next week with a regular Free For All Friday. In the meantime, I want to share with you a bit about the biblical doctrine of election, which I will be addressing in a forthcoming sermon.

One of the things I think is so funny is that people will often say things like, “I don’t believe in predestination” or “I don’t believe in election.” There’s a problem with that. The problem is that if the Bible uses a particular word or phrase, you’ve got to do something with that. You can disagree with someone on what election or predestination means, but you can’t just dismiss those words because the Bible uses them to talk about real concepts, and it’s always dangerous when you start trying to dismiss the Bible when it uses words or phrases that you “don’t believe in.”

Many times, what people will mean when they say that they don’t believe in election or predestination is that they don’t believe in the Calvinistic interpretation of it. They mean that they don’t believ…