Editing Predestination (section)

=== Corporate election ===

Corporate election is a non-traditional Arminian view of election.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|author=Brian Abasciano|date=25 October 2013|title=The FACTS of Salvation: A Summary of Arminian Theology/the Biblical Doctrines of Grace|url=http://evangelicalarminians.org/the-facts-of-salvation-a-summary-of-arminian-theologythe-biblical-doctrines-of-grace/|access-date=18 May 2017|publisher=Society of Evangelical Arminians}}</ref> In [[corporate election]], God does not choose which individuals he will save prior to creation, but rather God chooses the church as a whole. Or put differently, God chooses a group of people he will save (members of the church), and individuals may work their way into (or out of) the said group. Another way the New Testament puts this is to say that God chose the church in Christ (Eph. 1:4). In other words, God chose from all eternity to save all those who would be found in Christ, by faith in God. This choosing is not primarily about salvation from eternal destruction either but is about God's chosen agency in the world. Thus individuals have full freedom in terms of whether they become members of the church or not.<ref name=":1" /> Corporate election is thus consistent with the open view's position on God's omniscience, which states that God's foreknowledge does not determine the outcomes of individual free will.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}