All from one and One for All

All men are implicated in Adam's sin, as St Paul affirms: "By one man's disobedience many [that is all men] were made sinners": "sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned..." The apostle contrasts the universality of sin and death with the universality of salvation in Christ. "Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.: (CCC 402)

Romans 5:18 shows us yet another reason to dismiss the concept of an elect group God has chosen for salvation. If we can agree that ALL men are prone to sin as a result of one man's disobedience in the garden, then it should be apparent that God's plan of salvation, in motion since the first moment of man's fall, would be to reconcile ALL men to Him again.

There are too many verses in Scripture which indicate that Christ died for all men to afford a belief in a predetermined elect group. Instead, the elect are merely those men who respond to the invitation each of us has received. Our free will determines our membership in the elect groups Scripture repeatedly references.