infralapsarianism

Did God establish salvation on the basis of faith because of Adam and Eve's lack of faith? No, I don't think so.

Now you're into a very difficult area of theology which is known as lapsarianism, right? Sublapsarianism, supralapsarianism, or infralapsarianism.

Doesn't that bless your heart? And what it basically means is you're really asking the question, did God establish salvation because of what Adam and Eve did? Or did God establish salvation before Adam and Eve did anything? And what did God establish first? And what is the sequence and what is the order? And the answer to all of that is I don't know.

But some people are sublapsarian, some people are infralapsarian, some people are supralapsarian, and then there are Labrador retrievers.

unconditional election, as we said, is that before the foundation of the world decree happened, on the part of God to pick out the ones that are, uh, elect.

And when it comes to the non-elect, there's, you know, minutia disputes between, uh, various Calvinists and Puritans and so forth as to, uh, you know, pre-Lapsarian and post-Lapsarian.

And did God decree the damnation of the reprobate in an equal double predestination? Or is there a kind of, uh, you know, we're not going to get into that because that's, that's a inter-Calvinistic type of dispute.

Um, But just for the purpose of understanding TULIP, that's what we see the doctrine of election means.