In Romans 9, Paul labors the point that our election is not based on what we do—not on our doing, our willing, our goodness, or our badness. Instead, before we were born—and without any respect to what we would do or not do—God elected some and not others, that His purposes in election might stand. It’s fascinating to note that God didn’t just distinguish between two different people, cultures, lands, and religions; He distinguished between sons of the same father in the same family.
