READ: A coal industry exec thinks God intervened to elect Trump.
He has caused significant unease within the Christian world, and the general public, for saying things like Islam is evil, that LGBTQ+ people should not be welcomed into your home, and that god intervened to elect Trump because, among other things, the White House had been infiltrated by secularists and Muslims.
"Some said it would take an act of God to re-elect him," Susan Paynter, a columnist for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, wrote in yesterday's paper.
But then, maybe God is more attentive to elect categories of people -- in this case, evangelical (pentecostal?) Christians.
Whether or not a world is still to be won (by those privileged by money, or belonging to God's elect, their chance membership of one social class, race or nation), it will certainly be lost to all humanity, if the present generation cannot formulate a more modest, humane version of prosperity with justice within the limits of what the planet, not the market, can bear.
Who shall lay anything charge to God's elect?
Hence, Arminius came to assert a conditional election, according to which God elects to eternal life those who will respond in faith to the divine offer of salvation.
From Romans 9.13, where Paul comments on Malachi 1.2, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated," Gregory took his position that from eternity, God actively elects to damn some and to save others, a theory called Double Predestination or Double Particular Election (Vignaux 1934, ch. 4; Schüler 1934; Halverson 1998, 143 157; Schabel 2002).
In 1 Enoch, and 4 Ezra, the term Son of God can be applied to the Messiah, but most often it is applied to the righteous men, of whom Jewish tradition holds there to be no more righteous than the ones God elected to translate to heaven alive.
They used such terms to indicate their special place among God's elect, as they subscribed to the Calvinist belief in predestination.
