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Total Depravity (Total Inability)

Adam comitted sin in the Garden of Eden in disobeying God’s command. The effect of the fall upon man is that sin has extended to every part of his personality -- his thinking, his emotions, and his will. This depravity was transmitted to all his progeny by inheritance. Hence the unregenerate (unsaved) man is dead in his trespasses and sins (Romans 5:12). Without the power of the Holy Spirit, the natural man is totally incapable of responding to the gospel (Mark 4:11f). Total Depravity therefore implies Total Inability. The natural man will never come to understand the things of the Spirit without God making him alive through Christ (Ephesians 2:1-5).

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Unconditional Election

Since all have sinned and since the wages of sin is death. All are given the sentence of death justly. However God in his mercy was pleased to bring to a knowledge of himself some out of these. This election is not based upon any merit of the one elected nor of any foreknowledge whether he or she will accept the gospel but it is based only on his sovereign will. God has elected, based solely upon the counsel of his own will, some for glory and others for damnation (Romans 9:15,21). He has done this act before the foundations of the world (Ephesians 1:4-8). Thus the election is predestined even before the creation.

The elect are saved unto good works (Ephesians 2:10). So good works are the result of God's saving grace and therefore an indication of the election

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Limited Atonement (Particular Redemption)

Since only a few are elected and that predestined before the creation, Jesus’ atonement on the cross was only for the elect and not for the whole mankind. The Bible teaches that Christ died for those whom God gave him to save (John 17:9). Christ died, indeed, for many people, but not for all (Matthew 26:28)

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Irresistible Grace

Those who are preordained to salvation will respond to the call of God. This call cannot be resisted by the elect. There is no free will for man with respect to the response to salvation. Only those who have the Spirit will respond to Christ, and all whom God has elected will come to a knowledge of him (John 6:37). Men come to Christ in salvation when the Father calls them (John 6:44), and the very Spirit of God leads God's beloved to repentance (Romans 8:14).

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Perseverance of the Saints

Saints (those whom God has saved) who are justified will remain in God's grace until they are sanctified and glorified and brought to abide with him in heaven. (Romans 8:28-39) . The work of sanctification which God has started in his elect will continue until it reaches its fulfillment in eternal life (Phil. 1:6). Christ assures the elect that he will not lose them and that they will be glorified at the "last day" (John 6:39).