Romans 9:18-21 — "God's Sovereign Choice"

Iglesia ni Cristo affirms God's sovereignty in Romans 9 while understanding election as grounded in God's foreknowledge of human choices. The passage establishes that God's purposes are not thwarted, and God's sovereignty is maintained while human free will is preserved. The church teaches that God foreknew who would respond in faith and chose those individuals accordingly.

This balances divine omniscience with human agency: God knows all things from eternity, including who will believe, and elects according to that knowledge. The passage supports the conviction that God's purposes will be fulfilled, but not through predetermined mechanical determinism.