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The act of choice or selection of suitable means to an end, made by an intelligent being. In biblical terms the divine election is God's choice of certain people for a given mission he wanted them to fulfill. Thus Paul was a "chosen instrument" (Acts 9:15), and all Christians "have been chosen" (I Thessalonians 1:4).
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