Refuting Unconditional Election and the Theory of Predestination

Unconditional election is the doctrine that states God chose those He was to bring to the knowledge of Himself, not based upon any merit shown by the object of His grace and not allowing who would accept the offer- the offer of God's grace. They base this upon His will-some for glory and some for damnation in Romans 9:15, 21: 

¹⁵ For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”  ²¹ Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

Notice in that verse, this could be viewed as hypothetical question. This theory would have us believe that He did this act before the creation of the earth from Ephesians 1:4-8:

⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, ⁵ having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

⁷ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace ⁸ which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

 I agree their is election but not unconditional election. Neither of the scriptures above prove unconditional election. I agree with election in that we have a free will decision. Scriptures John 3:16:

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

as well as Romans 10:9:

⁹ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

and Galatians 2:16:

¹⁶ knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

and also Philippians 3:9:

⁹ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

This stance of unconditional election means that infants and children will go to hell without choice because we were born in iniquity. 

Psalms 51:5:

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5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Psalms 58:3:  

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Proverbs 22:15:

15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

Thank god for Romans 5:13:

¹³ (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

God elected all people be saved but some choose evil rather than God. The following scriptures prove this:

John 3:16, 17:

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

1Timothy 2:3,4:

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴ who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2Peter 3:9:

⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

John 12:32:

³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.

Because of these scriptures, this author believes that each person chooses in an election to believe and serve Jesus Christ or to serve evil. 

But remember...Romans 10:13: ¹³ For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Daniel