While the Zoramites may have rejected the performances of the law of Moses, they have not totally rejected all of the old religion. They have retained two essential elements of what we know as Old Testament religion. They believe in God, and they believe in the election of God’s chosen people.
The difference in this second retained belief is that they have shifted the concept of election from the house of Israel to the city of Zoram. It appears that they have theologically expanded the role of election in their inherited Nephite religion and pushed that concept to a higher function in religion than we have seen to date in the Book of Mormon. They are the chosen, and the elect, and therefore it is they who are exclusively in the grace of God. This election will assure their salvation while condemning all others.