Isaiah40:28
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If you look carefully throughout the NT where election is discussed you will find that the writer never hesitates to give God praise and thanksgiving for His electing love(grace).skypair said:How would you say that the doctrine of election is a "comfort?" On account of "Perserverance of the saints?" I don't even get how "election" is a comfort to anyone except those who are ministers -- whose jobs depend on their "perserverance"/works. Maybe you could enlighten me.![]()
Eph. 1 and 2 Thess. 2:13 are two excellent examples.
If you don't see election as a reason to give thanks then you do not see election as what it truly is taught in the Bible.
I for one, am thankful that my salvation did not depend on me. I can affirm what the apostle John wrote in John 1:13, that God gave me the right to be His child, not because of anything I decided but because it was His will that I be born of Him, adopted into His family.
My delcaration of faith, my profession, is the way I show that I have been born of God.
As far as John of Japan declaring he would never talk about election to an unsaved person nor a new Christian, what are you thinking?
If it's in the Bible it is to be declared to men. We need not be ashamed of what the Bible teaches nor hold doctrines in secret. It's apparant that Jesus, Paul or Peter did not refrain from teaching these things and writing to the church about them.
I would caution to reconsider your view.