Who is the predestined position of Christlikeness in Romans 8:29 for?
The predestined position of Christlikeness is reserved for every individual believer—those whom God foreknew. Scripture does not say God predestined people to heaven or hell in this verse; rather, He predestinated believers to the position of being conformed or made like the Son.
Les teaches that the passage is often misread as predestinating some to hell or others to heaven, but the text actually says that whom God foreknew, He predestinated to a position—being conformed or made like the Son. That position is not heaven or hell; it is a position God has reserved for every individual believer. Les connects this with Ephesians 1:4, where believers were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy, set apart, and without blame before Him in love, as a result of that love extended on the cross.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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What position has God predestined believers to in Romans 8:29?
The position to which God predestinates believers in Romans 8:29 is being conformed or made like to the Son.
What does Romans 8:29 say believers are predestined to?
In Romans 8:29, being predestinated does not mean being predestined to hell or even to heaven; the predestination is to a position, specifically being conformed or made like God's Son.
What does Romans 8 actually say we are predestinated to?
Romans 8 does not say that God predestinated people to hell or to heaven; it says that whom God foreknew, He predestinated to a position — namely being conformed to, or made like, the Son.