Never does election or predestination refer to salvation, but always and only to particular benefits. “What must be borne in mind is the fact that predestination is not God’s predetermining from past ages who should and who should not be saved. Scripture does not teach this view.”
Ironside declares: “… There is no reference in these four verses [the only four that refer to predestination] to either heaven or hell, but to Christlikeness eventually. Nowhere are we told in Scripture that God predestined one man to be saved and another to be lost.”