The TRUE Doctrine of Election in the Bible starts and ends with the Election of Christ, and is ENTIRELY based on Foreknowledge. Because, if it was not foreknown that Christ would FREELY SUCCEED at paying for sins, then ALL of creation -- including, creation of the angels -- could never have been justified. So throw out all that Reformation junk about supra- and sub- and infra-lapsarianism. ALL is instead, based on Christ. So all is free to be what it is, good or bad, since Christ was foreknown and THUS Decreed, to FREELY succeed, Isaiah 52:13-15, Isa53:10-12.For, LOVE is the Integrity of God, and God LOVES Truth -- you know how many Bible verses there are on that. Well, Love must be Free, and Truth must be Free, so the DECREE is for Free Truth to exist. Which means, if Christ Freely grows IN the Truth (and He was foreknown to do so, to BECOME the Way, Truth and Life) -- then 'sons' can be made from Him. Sons if perfect, OR imperfect, still the task is the same -- grow them in His Thinking.So sin is rather secondary to the purpose, a glitch to be resolved at an enormous cost, surely -- but that same sin only furnishes more opportunity for HIS THINKING to be bigger, still. That's why He's Bigger than all the angels put together even in His Humanity, theme of Hebrews 1 (which my pastor stressed often). See how sin is but leverage to produce better thinking in Christ and therefore us? See why Paul has to talk as he does, in Romans 6-8? LEVERAGE is God's Decree, Isaiah 54:1.So no more need to be narrowly anthropocentric, nitpicking supra and sub. Instead, be Christ-centric, learning and living on Bible!Worksheet pics come from http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls . This video summarizes all my webpage and video content, but the Thinking Series is its focus. That series starts with http://www.brainout.net/Thinking.htm . It's huge, a comprehensive 'audit' of God's Son-Making Plan from eternity past to eternity future, showing how it balances to everything in Bible. Runs over 1200 printed pages, so pace yourself. :)This story was put in novel format (only five chapters finished so far), http://www.brainout.net/PDR.doc . It reads most easily in Print Preview fullscreen, 2-page view. Less