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Union with Christ begins with God's pretemporal decision to save his people in and through Jesus Christ. This union, further, is based on the redemptive work for his people which Christ did in history. Finally, this union is actually established with God's people after they have been born, continues throughout their lives, and has as its goal their eternal glorification in the life to come. We go on, then, to see union with Christ as having its roots in divine election, its basis in the redemptive work of Christ, and its actual establishment with God's people in time.
- Anthony Hoekema

"God elected believers; but He chose them that they might be so, not because they were already so...Neither are we called because we believed, but that we may believe; and by that calling which is without repentance it is effected and carried through that we should believe."
- Augustine Treatise On The Predestination of the Saints Chap. 38

" ...the conversion of a sinner being not owing to a man's self determination, but to God's determination, and eternal election, which is absolute, and depending on the sovereign Will of God, and not on the free will of man; as is evident from what has been said : and it being very evident from the Scriptures, that the eternal election of saints to the faith and holiness, is also an election of them to eternal salvation; hence their appointment to salvation must also be absolute, and not depending on their contingent, self-determining Will."
- JONATHAN EDWARDS

Unconditional Election by Brian Schwertley

What is Election? by Dr. Sam Storms

Election - God Chooses His Own by J.I. Packer

Are There Two Wills in God? by John Piper

Misunderstandings of the Doctrine of Election by Wayne Grudem

Election by Charles Spurgeon

Unconditional Election by Loraine Boettner

The Doctrine of Election by A.W. Pink

God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men by Jonathan Edwards - The sovereignty of God is His absolute, independent right of disposing of all creatures according to His own pleasure.

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The Doctrine of Election by John Calvin

Corporate and Individual Election in Romans 9: A Response to Brian Abasciano ((.pdf) by Thomas R. Schreiner

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Unconditional Election by Dr. Arturo Azurdia III

What is the doctrine of Election? (MP3) by Dr. Tim Keller

"Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress; Whoever, then, heaps odium upon the doctrine of predestination openly reproaches God, as if he had unadvisedly let slip something hurtful to the church"
John Calvin (III, XXI, 3-4, pp. 924, 926).

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