Charles Haddon Spurgeon on Election & predestination
Unconditional — grounded in God's free choice
"Did my Saviour die for me because I believed on Him? No... Could the Saviour, therefore, have died because I had faith, when I myself was not yet born?"
THE POSITION
Grounded explicitly in God's free choice, not foreseen faith — and Spurgeon states the negative case directly, walking through and rejecting the foreseen-faith argument step by step: Christ could not have died for him because of a faith that didn't yet exist when Christ died, and faith itself is traced back to the gift and working of the Spirit rather than standing prior to grace.
29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, and the most famous preacher of Victorian England — the "Prince of Preachers." Preached roughly 3,500–4,000 sermons across 63 volumes; All of Grace and A Defence of Calvinism state his soteriology directly.
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"Charles Haddon Spurgeon on Election & predestination", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/spurgeon/election (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/spurgeon/election).