Today we're going to talk about what election is, what predestination is. These are two issues

that come up and are rather important in scripture. The doctrine of election, the doctrine

of predestination. We're going to answer

questions like, does predestination mean that I have no real choice? If people

are predestined, does that mean they have no choice. Here's another question.

Does God really want everyone to be saved?

Does he genuinely want all people to be saved?

And here's an interesting one.

The doctrine of election, right?

Election, how unconditional exactly is election.

Now for those who are my Calvinist friends,

who hopefully will still be friends later,

the doctrine of election is in Calvinism unconditional election. It's one of the it's one of the letters of Tulip. I think it's the U probably. I'm just being silly. But yes, the unconditional election. Now I want to give you a confession first. I am, this topic is massive. And when you delve into these issues and you start hearing the debates and the discussions it starts to get

rather complicated and it branches out really quickly and you started talking about

election and pretty soon you're talking about what the difference between

libertarian free will and compatibleist free will and all sorts of weird

interesting concepts that just get a little bit too much sometimes at

least for one message that's for sure. So I myself am still trying to learn and get these topics, but I do have

positions on them and I want to share those openly. And the goal here, my main goal goal is this I want to affirm what scripture says as

true and then say so what does that mean that that's the general approach we're

going to have of course everyone's going to say they do that. But that's

of course my goal. Just affirm biblical truth, not pick a side, and defend one side and attack

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