Mike said:
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I believe election is not unto salvation. I can back up my belief with scripture, too. But at the end of the day, I think it's imporant to realize that the word "elektos" could in your mind be used here - but it is not.

Your view is remarkably similar to a discussion I recently had with another Arminian.
He quoted Eph. 1:4 as proving that God chose the character of the saved, not people themselves. He believes that if God did choose people rather than the character of the saved, it would mean that there is darkness in God.
Eph.1:4 says "Accordingly he hath chosen us, in him before the foundations of the world, that we should be holy and with out blame before him in love."

Do you support the view that this verse and its context talk about the character of the chosen, rather than the chosen themselves?

Could you please exegete this verse?

Tom