Notice the phrase, "whom he . . . them he also;" "whom he . . . them he also;" "whom he . . . them he also." Here are the five things that God has joined together. It is a most delightful truth for the soul of any man. What God has joined together, let not man dare to try to put asunder. Five tremendous blessings are here joined together. Notice the change of the order of terms to make his point. Predestination preceeds justification in Paul's theology, not the reverse!
Well I noticed right away ..dr..how much sense does it make to predestinate somne thing that has already happened? No one wants God to be sovereign! They will twist the word of God to deny it..
Predestination, in this instance, is a very human term used to express that which God knew from the beginning. That God knew before He made the world who among us would eventually be believers doesn't change the fact that it was through our faith alone (as an exercise of our free will) in God's Grace through Jesus that we are saved.
The Christians who object to the fact of "Predestination" are mistaking it to mean that we really didn't have a choice. In fact, we did. God just knew before we were born which choice we would make.
With love in Him,
G.