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Gavin Ortlund on Election & predestination

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Unconditional — grounded in God's free choice

THE POSITION

Unconditional election; Reformed Baptist.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONOne quotation, on spiritual-warfare, from a machine transcript of a solo Truth Unites episode, and copyright is not the reason the rest have none: this map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright. An earlier pass is recorded under research/ortlund — the transcript panel would not open on either Truth Unites video tried, and both books are paywalled. That is an access problem rather than a permission problem, and it produced one honest finding: the original-sin cell is a null recorded as searched and not located, with its own reason. The other eight have had no pass at all.

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

AquinasAugustineVoddie BauchamCalvinJonathan EdwardsTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurJohn 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 and author behind Truth Unites. Works on retrieving the church fathers for Protestants and on charitable engagement with Catholic and Orthodox claims.

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

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