In Genesis 17 where we read the command to Abraham that every male child eight days old is to be circumcised (including the children of servants and slaves - even if not Abraham's descendants (verse 12), there is this unnerving penalty presecribed in verse 14:

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But an uncircumcised male ... shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.

An eight-day-old covenant breaker? It's not as though an eight-day-old could circumcise himself if his parents failed to do so - yet God's word is explicit.

Election in infancy is also demonstrated in the yet-unborn John the Baptist's reaction to Mary's visit with Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-56). Verses 41 and 44 say

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When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. ... For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.

That was definately an elect baby... and compelling evidence of God's election prior to birth - let alone prior to any verbal articulation of faith.

-Robin