Is God's choice to save you unconditional?

Or is there a condition for your salvation?

God's choice to save you is not conditioned on your morality, your good or bad deeds.

It is conditioned upon your faith, your willingness to humbly confess your bad deeds

and place your trust in the goodness of Christ.

Calvinists wrongly conclude that God's choice to save you is not conditioned upon your faith,

because faith itself, according to Calvinism, is a good deed, which mankind is born morally incapable of doing,

even in response to the clear revelation of the

gospel. For instance, Calvinistic pastor John Piper says election refers to God's choosing

whom to save. It is unconditional in that there is no condition man must meet before God chooses

to save him. Man is dead in trespasses and sins. So there is no condition he can meet before God chooses to save him. Man is dead in trespasses and sins,

so there is no condition he can meet

before God chooses to save him from his deadness.

The Calvinist has wrongly concluded

that to be dead spiritually is equal

to being morally incapable of responding

even to God's truth. Therefore the Calvinist will often conclude that

we are dead much like Lazarus in the grave and cannot come to Christ until he calls us out

by name individually. However, if we examine the story of Lazarus more closely, it reveals

a truth that flies in the face of the Calvinistic conclusion. Jesus said to them plainly, Lazarus more closely, it reveals a truth that flies in the face of the Calvinistic conclusion.

Jesus said to them plainly,

Lazarus is dead, and I'm glad for your sakes that I was not there so that you may believe.

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