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Post-Election Perspectives


Fall LeavesBy the time this issue of Eternal Perspectives arrives in your mailbox, the presidential election will be over. Followers of Christ, regardless of who they advocated and voted for, should now pray wholeheartedly for our president and his administration, as Scripture instructs us in 1 Timothy 2:1-4:

How can our default destination be Hell if we are one of the elect?

I don't deal with election in the Heaven book, though I do believe in election, since the Bible teaches it. Election does not change the default destination issue. All are conceived and born in sin, that is the sense in which our default destination is hell. Without God's intervention that's where we'll go. That's the point, and biblically it's not debatable.

How do you explain the doctrine of election?

I believe in divine election as taught in Scripture. The elect are referred to in ten or so passages and the chosen in many others. Col 3:12 calls us Gods chosen people, holy and dearly loved.

Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies (Romans 8:33). Ephesians 1:11 says In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will. Romans 9:10-21 makes clear we are in sin and can do nothing to earn or merit our being chosen by God. His choice of us is unconditional and therefore in no sense is it to our credit.

Biblical and Ethical Issues That Have Bearing on This Election

This letter was written in the Fall of 2004 regarding the upcoming November election.

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