When discussing the issue of God’s sovereignty in the salvation of sinners, the topic of Unconditional Election will typically turn to a false notion of “fairness” that says God “doesn’t play favorites” or to put it biblically, that God is “no respecter of persons.”
Having heard this numerous times from folks when talking about Calvinism, I thought I would address what the Bible means when uses the language of “respecter of persons” and the context in which it applies to God to demonstrate that it does NOT mean that God is not free to “have mercy upon whom he will have mercy” but that nothing in man can influence him (such as bribes to an earthy judge), especially in relationship to their judgment.
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I think there is misunderstanding of a conception here. God does have mercy on him, he would have mercy. Still this act of God is not against the rule of his kingdom. Some thing is required of whom God bestowed his mercy namely geniuely repentance and absolute surrender to the will of God. I have not seen a man that willfully disobeyed God and still enjoy the mercy of God. The election or predestination as spoken of in the bible is connected to Christ. Those predestinated are so predestinated to receive their salvation through Christ. Not individual is predestinated but every one is predestinated to be save through christ. This is the biblical doctrine of predestination and election.