Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
The Arminian will say that since God knows the heart, He knew that Judas would betray Him and chose him for that purpose.
I say that God forms the heart of every man (Psalm 33:15), and the steps of a man are determined by God not man (Proverbs 16:9). Judas was chosen for the purpose God had for him and he could do nothing else. God worked in him to will and to do according to His (God’s) good pleasure (Philippians 2:13). In other words, God made Judas WANT to betray Jesus just as he worked in Joseph’s brothers to WANT to sell him into slavery (Genesis 50:20) - for HIS good purpose.
And in John 15:16 we see Jesus again saying not only did He choose His followers (and still does), He clearly stated, “You did not choose me.”
God did the choosing and He chose few.
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