Of the predestination of God and the election of the saints (Second Helvetic Confession, 10a)
Ronald Cammenga examines the Second Helvetic Confession's doctrine of predestination, arguing that God's eternal decree—not human will—is the decisive cause of salvation. The article traces how all Protestant Reformers and Reformed confessions consistently emphasized divine predestination as grounded in God's sovereign grace alone, supported by key biblical passages like Ephesians 1:4 and 2 Timothy 1:9-10.
God Has Elected Us out of Grace. From eternity God has freely, and of His mere grace, without any respect to men, predestinated or elected the saints whom He wills to save in Christ, according to the saying of the apostle, "God chose us in him before the foundation of the world" (Eph. 1:4). And again: "Who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago, and now has manifested through...
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