Understanding God’s election

[SwordOfTruth]

If He were to explain that only those He chooses will be saved,
the elect/called/chosen would not be so eager to respond.
There would be a hesitancy to respond.

Indeed, those among the "elect" with any shred of morals would recognise they had been following a complete imposter who is obviously neither all-powerful or all-loving. Some elect of course, the immoral pious pompous fools would be dead chuffed that they were "in the club" and everyone else was destined to perish, but then the world has always had its share of throughly immature unspiritual nohopers, most of them are in the secret societies loving the increased status and standing they think it gives them. Honestly your belief system is so flawed and full of holes I can't understand why anyone with an iota of critical thinking could possibly give it the time of day.

 

[JudgeRightly]

Obviously, God wants it to appear that anyone can be saved.

If not everyone can be saved, then that just makes God out to be a liar.

That gives the elect/called/chosen reason to respond positively to the Gospel.
If He were to explain that only those He chooses will be saved,
the elect/called/chosen would not be so eager to respond.
There would be a hesitancy to respond.

Because no rational person could easily understand that if only some people are saved, and not others, based on nothing but a unilateral decision on God's part, that God is therefore not worthy of love.

Again, you give the "unelect" the perfect exuse against God, "I was never chosen, because God didn't love me."

 

[JudgeRightly]

Indeed, those among the "elect" with any shred of morals would recognise they had been following a complete imposter who is obviously neither all-powerful or all-loving. Some elect of course, the immoral pious pompous fools would be dead chuffed that they were "in the club" and everyone else was destined to perish, but then the world has always had its share of throughly immature unspiritual nohopers, most of them are in the secret societies loving the increased status and standing they think it gives them. Honestly your belief system is so flawed and full of holes I can't understand why anyone with an iota of critical thinking could possibly give it the time of day.

@Dougcho This is exactly what I'm talking about.

Such a doctrine does not paint God as loving.

It paints Him as capricious, arbitrary, and spiteful, and gives opportunity to the wicked to mock not only you, but God.

 

[Derf]

The whosoevers are mentioned to provide people with hope of salvation.

The whosoevers are mentioned because they exist, and God loves them, you know...the world.

Being an evangelist, I know that people would not be interested
... if their free-will choice might NOT be honored by God.
Let's preach the Gospel and see who jumps all over it.

Yet that's exactly what Paul did. Some jumped all over it, and some jumped all over Paul.

The NT says it is not possible for those not chosen/called to believe.
The OP says it also (see points 1 and 2 for the reasons).

But they are chosen, as you already admitted, based on the fact they believe. Therefore your sentence is correct, but not before the foundation of the world.

 

[SwordOfTruth]

The whosoevers are mentioned because they exist, and God loves them, you know...the world.

So now you're suggesting that God loves all those people but he's not going to save them because they're not the "elect" or "chosen"

I can't help but feel you've chosen to worship a monster. You are surely in error.