Comments for The Way Paint Fumes Effects Concepts of Election at http://www.biblearchive.com/mambo4_5 , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.biblearchive.com/mambo4_5 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:31:30 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.biblearchive.com/mambo4_5/index.php/Answer-Back/Election.html#comment-248 Rey - All good points. That\'s why I think we have misappropriated individual election. It doesn\'t exist - well, not in the traditional sense. Nowhere in Scripture does it speak about an individual being elect other than Jesus. Thus, God\'s act of election in eternity past is towards Jesus (keeping everything God-centered). When we are placed in Jesus we receive all the blessings and positions that are His (obviously, without becoming God). Thus, we are elect (we could even say individually elect) but not becuase God individually chose me but because God individually chose Jesus and I am in Him. God did know this from eternity past and so there is a sense in which His foreknowledge recognizes us as either elect or vessels of wrath from eternity past - but the act of election seems focused not on individual mankind but on Jesus and mankinds association or lack thereof with Him. - PhilThreeten Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:39:11 +0100