Spare yourself the time. You show a passage to the thessalonians calling them elect, and MB will ask where they're said to be gentiles. You'd go, but they are the thessalonians who are saved, and MB would say they're the jews alone in thessalonica. Which is why it's safe to keep pressing on just Colossians where they're explicitly referred to as gentiles. MB last still said Col 3:12 meant Put on bowels of mercies as the elect do, where that's still the jews and used only a comparison to which you need to point out that this was just one adjective among the other two - holy and beloved, which still describes the Colossians. You do this and MB would go on a repeated assertion trip - this has been the pattern and I would only suggest you reserve your time and energy for better discussions.
Dave is your last name Gilbert? If not it's strange that you signed up the day after Dave Gilbert left. And you write just like him. What are the odds?
It was Paul's custom to preach in the synagogues. Who were in the synagogues could it be Jews. My goodness what on earth are the Jews doing in the synagogues? You apply it to your selves what isn't in scripture and assume your elect HEhehehehehehehehehehe
You Calvinist are really a bunch of pretenders.Everything in your doctrine depends on how well you pretend. hehehehehehehehehehehe
You still haven't proven Gentiles are elect. Because it's not an act of Paul but an act of God. You guy's seem to get the two mixed up
MB