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Election, as taught in Scripture, is not the election of individuals but rather the election of a group of people. Under the new covenant, this group includes all who obey the Gospel of Christ and are added to the church by God.

The Election God sovereignly did, before the foundation of the world, is by Name. "whoes name was in the book of life" (Philippians 4:3) repeated in (Revelations 3:5). In the Gospel of John "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out."

Yes, it also says in Revelations "A people for his own from every tribe and nation". Have you never thought that if it was at random, he would miss some tribes or nations?? No, God is the one who Elects, not man. So that no one will boast. For have you not read:

"and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God." 1 Corinthians 1

No man can boast that he chose God, for there is no room in the scriptures to do so.

Man merely confesses the Faith that God has planted, for Faith is not of man, but the Gift of God:

"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast."

For if Faith is the Gift of God, then it did not come from Man.

"Salvation is of the Lord" and not from Man at all, just as God through Jonah said. Thus there is no room for boasting, either of man saying "I chose God" or saying "God chose me"