of course, you wil get back that either it makes God "unfair, picking sides", or else that we misunderstood, was JUST refering to those 2 people. period!
And they will say He chose based upon what he foresaw them doing in the Future!
God did everything to bring Jesus the elected one and all in Him not apart from Him will be saved so His election will stand. It isn't til Jesus was glorified that salvation came to the world. I believe many come to the conclusion that God had elected people to bring about His plan and stop there and everyone is saved that way, but it is to bring salvation to the world through Jesus Christ and whosoever, anybody, all who believe in Him will be saved.
Most people want to stop at election, but through these elected one's spreading the hope that can only be found in Jesus, God is including more those who hear the Gospel of their salvation having believed. What have they believed?
They believed the finish work of Jesus Christ saved them, not what they did.
God choose Jacob to be the line of His Son not what Jacob has done, but what Jesus will do and what has been going on from the beginning that those who believe, trust in God not themselves will be credited righteousness.
No one seeks God and no one is good so God choose messengers to seek them, and Jesus came to save sinners those who are not good, those who are not righteous and have to depend on the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 3
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.[Or will direct your paths]
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the LORD and shun evil.
Luke 10:21
At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.
John 6:
45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[Isaiah 54:13] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
John 14:10
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
John 14:24
Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
Luke 9:26
Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
John 7:39
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
Psalm 73:28
But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, That I may declare all Your works.
Romans 4:
4 Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. 5 However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. 6 David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”[Psalm 32:1,2]
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