I was reading this quote from a bible study off of www.studylight.org today. It's an excellent website with fantastic resources if you want to read up on the original Greek text of the New Testament and the original Hebrew of the Old Testament. VERY VERY cool stuff.

"God gathered together all things in one in Christ Jesus (see Ephesians 1.10). The "all things" of Ephesians 1.10 is the same "all things" of Ephesians 1.11. God gathered them together in as muchas He "works all things according to the counsel of His will." The gathering together of things in Christ was not devised of man; it was wholly from God’s mind! Therefore, Paul wrote that we werepredestined according to God’s purposes. The predestination was not of individuals but of how those individuals would be saved and the "place" of their salvation (i.e. in Him)."

I realize there are many differing view out there about the subject of predestination amongst Christians. However, I found this commentary to be very enlightening and one that I think stays true to the context of how Paul is talking about predestination. What do you think?

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