Chosen and therefore punished, what? Some explanatory sketches...

When you think "election" in the Bible, think Amos 3:2... It's brilliantly complexifying and *then* clarifying...

So good. I particularly love the triangle imagery where Christ represents the focal lens through which salvation flows and through which we are accepted as co-heirs. This deserves a proper YouTube video

This little one's on YouTube ( but, yes, maybe we should do a lengthier treatment.

This is brilliant

Ps. 50 also shows this. Esp. vss 1-7. Derek Kidner in Psalms (Tyndale) has a great discussion of it. 👍

Does 'election' in the NT (eg Eph1) then refer to everyone who made the decision to be in Christ rather than god 'electing' as is commonly understood?

@JamesTheGailey My friend Raoul Moat told me about this theory

“All souls are mine says the LORD”

Amen!

We’re all born in the negative column; John 3:17-18 Only the Spirit of Holiness brings us into the positive column. Except for “the little ones” that Jesus refers to, there’re only 2 columns. Consider Jesus binary statements in reference 2 the Prodigal; lost/found, dead/alive.

But Jesus isn’t ‘the true Israel’…he is the King of Israel, the king of the Jews (Mt 27:11).

He represents them. The King (the Servant of the LORD) represents the people (the servant of the LORD). The Son of God (Mark 1:1) represents 'the son of God' (Exodus 4:22). The Seed of Abraham (Gal 3:16) represents the seed of Abraham (Gal 3:29).