But why God delivers one from condemnation and not another belongs to His inscrutable judgments. But we say that it is by grace, or Divine predestination. Augustine's view was firmly founded on Scripture. Throughout, Scripture teaches that election is not conditioned upon any work or act of man. Plainly the latter.
Election is surely unconditional according to all the teachings of Scripture.
Some have insisted that this doctrine provides no comfort. For, say some, if one believes election, then the result will be that he becomes very careless and profane on this earth. If he wants to sin, he will be saved regardless. Though he do no good works, he will be saved anyway. But such is a distortion of this doctrine.