...when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls...
Romans 9:10-11

“God’s purpose of election” in this context has nothing to do with the eternal salvation of either Jacob or Esau. It is about who God is choosing for a specific mission in this world, as a pattern for a higher spiritual reality, and for who would be the progenitor of the one who would enable the eternal salvation of all who would believe in him.

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God is never arbitrary. He doesn't roll dice to decide who is "chosen" and who isn't. However, we know his choice of Jacob wasn't about anything Jacob or Esau had done either, so what was it? From Jay