In these answers there is an essential piece of the puzzle missing. Foreknowledge. Those whom he foreknew… he predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ. It is the Father seeing the bride of Christ from the beginning. It is the bride of Christ that God has predestined to be conformed and made fit for his Son as a helpmate.
There were ten virgins waiting for the groom… five went in, five did not… yet I believe all ten are saved, but all ten were not the bride, just five… the predestined.
Others heard the gospel as well and some fell on the path, the stony ground, the ground choked with weeds and the fertile ground. Those on the fertile ground are the bride, the predestined. The others? Some or all are saved but like the five foolish virgins not part of the bride.
How about Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses? The guests of the groom and the bride, they are saved but not the bride.
It is not a matter of salvation but making the bride ready for Christ.
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