The Biblical teaching of election to salvation is full of comfort, but as Paul acknowledges in Romans (9-11), must be handled with great care for it to have the intended purpose of comforting afflicted and troubled Christians.
The Lutheran fathers took up this challenge in 1577 when they published the Formula of Concord.
In the summary of the 11th article, they take up the teaching in 20 paragraphs. Here’s my video summary of this teaching:
You can read the text here: Formula of Concord, Epitome, XI.
A long discussion, but well worth the work, is here: Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration, XI.
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