http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200606/ai_n17176282/

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The explicit language of election unto salvation is always corporate in Paul (and the rest of the NT). While one might argue that the concept of election can be present and applied directly to individuals even when the explicit language is not, it still favors a corporate understanding of election that one will look in vain for an overt use of the language of election unto salvation in reference to an individual.


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Thus, the OT's and Judaism's corporate view of election, Paul's exclusive employment of corporate language in connection with election unto salvation, and the corporate orientation of Paul's socio-historical context all combine to provide a very strong case that Paul's view of election was corporate, and that he carried this view of election, which emanates from the Scriptures he interprets, into Romans 9. It will not do to argue that the individual entrance of Jews and Gentiles into the Church demands a concept of individual election,29 for as we have seen, the concept of corporate election embraces individual separation from and entrance into the elect community without shifting the locus of election to the individual.


Hi Pilgrim & Friends,

Related to the article I linked,

could you either link to some threads on this issue or respond to this post:

the agrument is made against 'Calvinists' who use Scriptures focus on corporate eletion and twist it to fit the Reformed theolgocial framework where individual election is at the forefront.

Personally, I see individual election throughout scriptures but this author seems to suggest that indivdual election is in no way explicit.

thanks!

AC

Last edited by AC.; Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:51 PM.
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