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Articles of Faith #3
"We believe that God chose a people unto salvation or eternal life and that this choice was eternal particular and unconditional"
Ephesians 1
4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Titus 1
1.Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
1 Thessalonians 1
4. Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
2 Thessalonians 2
13. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Acts 13
48. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
1 Peter 1
2. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:
Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
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