What does predestination mean for a believer's position at the moment of salvation?
Predestination means God predestinated and kept open a position for every believer, so at the moment of salvation that believer is placed exactly where God intended from eternity past. It concerns the believer's position, described as adoption: a full partner and heir with the Father through Jesus Christ.
Les explains that the word adoption comes from the Greek and the Roman practice of placing a son as a full partner and heir with the father. God has predestinated believers and kept that place open, so that the moment a person is saved, he is right where God intended him to be from eternity past. So predestination is all about the position—the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the pleasure of His good will.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
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What were believers predestinated to in Ephesians 1:5?
God's predestination in Ephesians 1:5 did not predestine people to heaven or hell; believers were predestinated from day one to the position of joint heirs with Christ in the process of adoption.