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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, and copyright is not the reason: this map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright. No primary-source pass has been run on him and nothing in this repo records one. The summaries here restate the stance rather than paraphrase a source, and the millennium cell says outright that it is not known with confidence. These nine stay at established and unknown until someone reads him.

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,

18 OTHERS HOLD THIS

AquinasAugustineCalvinJonathan EdwardsTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurGavin OrtlundJohn OwenJustin PetersJohn PiperJohn Duns ScotusR.C. SproulCharles Haddon SpurgeonWestminster ConfessionGeorge WhitefieldZwingli
Conditional — grounded in foreseen faithJACOBUS ARMINIUS · CHRYSOSTOM · CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WESLEY
Affirmed, held alongside real human responsibility, treated as non-dividingBILLY GRAHAM · JOSH 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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