When Did God Choose to Save Some Humans? Did God Choose to Save Individuals?”
“When did God choose to save some humans?

“Before the foundation of the world” = before God created the world. God chose to save some humans before he created the world.
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Did God choose to save individuals?”

Table 1: Four Kinds of Election
Corporate Election

Individual Election

Election to Serve

1. Corporate election to serve (Israel)
2. Individual election to serve (e.g., the Messiah, Cyrus)
Election to Save
3. Corporate election to save (elect Israelites, elect Gentiles, all God’s people as a group)
4. Individual election to save (each individual believer)
We should reject the Arminian view of corporate election for at least seven reasons:

1.The Arminian view of corporate election is incompatible with unconditional election.
2. The Arminian view of corporate election emphasizes that God chose a group of people in Christ, but the New Testament emphasizes that God chose to save individuals.
3. The New Testament emphasizes that God chose us.
4. God “predestined us for adoption to himself as sons” (Eph. 1:5), and God adopts particular individuals. If adoption is individual, so is election.
5. God foreknows, calls, justifies, and glorifies particular individuals (Rom. 8:29–30). If foreknowledge, calling, justification, and glorification are individual, so is election (i.e., positive predestination).
6. If the corporate election view is true, then it is logically possible for God to elect a group of people in Christ and for no individuals to freely choose Christ. Thus, God could elect a group of people with no individuals in it other than Christ.