Here are eleven things expressly taught in the Word of God about election. No less than fourteen times in the first fourteen verses of Ephesians chapter one the Holy Spirit expressly tells us that every benefit and blessing of grace that comes to sinners from God is in Christ. Election is unto salvation.
Election is unto salvation.
God was not moved by anything outside Himself to choose the people He chose to save. God did not choose His people in time, but before time began, in eternity. He chose us before the foundation of the world, from the beginning, when nothing existed except God Himself in the trinity of the eternal Godhead. The source and cause of election is God's eternal LOVE for His people. He loved us freely, from everlasting, before ever the earth was made.