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When I talk to newcomers to Christianity, they often have a hang-up which is rather funny when you think about it. Many struggle with the doctrine of predestination — specifically, the Calvinistic ...

So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. —Romans II: 5-6 (Revised ...

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just ...