That is how I would answer too!

I also found the second part of his answer disturbing (which is more a theodicy issue than one about Eph. 1). Does he believe that God foreordained the cross? Most Arminians (pretty much other than open theists) would say that God ordained that Christ would die on the cross. Then they say that I, as a Calvinist, do not give enough credit to the fall when I say that God ordains the details as well as the big picture. But that is a straw man because no true Calvinist believes that God is the author of evil or that second causes are done away with!

God foreordained the greatest act of evil done by man. And yet man is held responsible because it was in his heart to do it.


True godliness is a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences Him as Lord, embraces His righteousness, and dreads offending Him worse than death~ Calvin