To what extent does God provide for our salvation? Completely: He chooses us before the beginning of time to be his children. Paul reveals that there is no contribution we can make to our being chosen by God, so that no one may boast, and so that we would praise God for all things. It is God alone who gives us every blessing in Jesus Christ.

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