Please help me with two things:

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  • Chalam
    Chalam

    Predestination appears here by name Romans 8:29, Romans 8:30, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:11

    However, God has a chosen people from cover to cover.

    Whichever side of the predestination coin you are looking at, one says "Jesus".

    1 Peter 2:6-10 (New International Version)

    6 For in Scripture it says:
    "See, I lay a stone in Zion,
    a chosen and precious cornerstone,
    and the one who trusts in him
    will never be put to shame." [ a ] 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
    "The stone the builders rejected
    has become the capstone, [ b ] " [ c ] 8 and,
    "A stone that causes men to stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall." [ d ] They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

    9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

    Footnotes:
    1. 1 Peter 2:6 Isaiah 28:16
    2. 1 Peter 2:7 Or cornerstone
    3. 1 Peter 2:7 Psalm 118:22
    4. 1 Peter 2:8 Isaiah 8:14

    Blessings,

    Stephen

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