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...if we believe on the basis of Romans 9 and Ephesians 1 that God sovereignly chooses some to everlasting life and passes by others, consigning them to eternal destruction, and that the elect only are the objects of God’s saving love, we will not likely forget these established doctrines when we read in Ezekiel 18 that God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. The idea is not to impose creedal formulations upon the text of Scripture, but rather to harmonize individual passages with the theology of the Bible as a whole, based on the assumption that those creedal formulations are proper expositions and summaries of Scripture.