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Unconditional election (also called sovereign election[1] or unconditional grace) is a Calvinist doctrine relating to predestination that describes the actions and motives of God prior to his creation of the world, when he predestined some people to receive salvation, the elect, and the rest he left to continue in their sins and receive the just punishment, eternal damnation, for their transgressions of God's law as outlined in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. God made these choices according to his own purposes apart from any conditions or qualities related to those persons.[2]
The counter-view to unconditional election is the Arminian view of conditional election, the belief that God chooses for eternal salvation those whom he foreknows will exercise their free will to respond to God's prevenient grace with faith in Christ. God's election was for a clear unalterable purpose, to elect those who will believe.[3]
^Sproul, R. C. (April 1, 2017). "TULIP and Reformed Theology: Unconditional Election". Ligonier Ministries. Archived from the original on August 5, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2021. Unconditional election is another term that I think can be a bit misleading, so I prefer to use the term sovereign election.
^John Calvin (1559). "Of the Eternal Election (3.21.7)". Institutes of the Christian Religion.
^Benson, Joseph (1857). Commentary of the Old and New Testaments. Carlton & Phillips.
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