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Voddie Baucham on Election & predestination

B. 1969 · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Unconditional — grounded in God's free choice

THE POSITION

Unconditional election; Reformed Baptist.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONNo quotations. A living author's work cannot be quoted at length without permission, so these positions are paraphrased from published writing rather than reproduced.

SCRIPTURE
EPHESIANS 1:4-5 · BSB

4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love 5 He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

16 OTHERS HOLD THIS

AquinasAugustineCalvinJonathan EdwardsTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurGavin OrtlundJohn OwenJustin PetersJohn PiperR.C. SproulCharles Haddon SpurgeonWestminster ConfessionZwingli
Conditional — grounded in foreseen faithJACOBUS ARMINIUS · CHRYSOSTOM · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WESLEY
Affirmed, held alongside real human responsibility, treated as non-dividingJOSH HOWERTON
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Pastor, apologist, and dean of theology at African Christian University, Zambia. Reformed, cessationist, and strongly family-discipleship focused.

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"Voddie Baucham on Election & predestination", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/baucham/election (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/baucham/election).

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