On Being The Elect

Many are called, but few are chosen. Who are the elect? Throughout the Bible the term “the elect” is used to refer to “God’s chosen people,” and I had always assumed, influenced by culture and my Protestant background, that the elect were synonymous with the saved. However I read an article lately that has challenged this unexamined assumption. The article was written by a Russian Orthodox priest, R. P, Alexander Turincev, in…