Although God's foreknowledge and Election of individuals are different. That is God's foreknowledge being His everlasting love toward the individual and God's election being the choice to save the individual.
God's foreknowledge and electing actions really are not seperate. To some degree they go together. It is not that God's election means that the individual does not have free will. It is that the individual really with his free-will, in the fallen state that he is in, cannot freely choose God. He is a sinner, dead in his trespasses and sins. God's election for one to be saved means that God is going to work in that individual so that the individual will repent and turn to Christ by the grace of the Holy Spirit alone. With the others (Reprobate) God simply leaves them in their sins, freelly to choose what they want which is sin.
He does not have to deal with the reprobate (that is prevent them from repenting and turning to Christ in faith). God's election should not be seen as something tyranical, but something good. For the elect owes his faith to being the elect, but his election to his faith.
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