If we are going to understand election we need to start with the fall of Man.
After sin was introduced, and God entered the garden looking for Adam, what did Adam do?
Genesis 3:10 So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."
He hid, and Man has been hiding from God ever since.
Revelation 6:16 and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
We will not come to God on our own.. Rather we run from God and the acknowledgement of our sins.
God desires that all of us would come to him, but none of us will come on our own. So God does not choose who will go to hell, we choose hell ourselves. The problem is without God calling us and convicting us of our sins, we will continue in them, thus rejecting God and deserving hell.
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
The existence of the World and all that is in it is clear evidence of God, yet we will not come to him without him initiating the call by placing conviction and guilt on our hearts. Therefore God Chooses some of us, for his own Divine reasons and through no merit of our own, to bring to him.
Matthew 20:16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen."
Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen."
Psalms 65:4 Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You, That he may dwell in Your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple.
This is the reason that Man is responsible if he goes to hell, but God deserves all the credit for salvation.
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