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No Mercy For the Non-Elect? Romans 9
Romans 9:1-18 is (by common consent) a rough spot. Some go in with theological girding in place and a skewed reading is bound to occur while others go in thinking they have to walk away convinced with Something because of the foreboding rumblings in the Christian atmosphere way above them. People might look at my [...]
XXII-Romans: Mercy vs. Harden -tmp(Rom 9:16-18)
We’re considering God’s righteousness and seeing how it works with mercy specifically in the case of the Jews. Thus far Paul impressed on us his sorrow that the Jews are not presently believers of the revealed Christ. Paul has been showing us how important a people they truly are and has taken us through history [...]
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XXI. Romans: Why God’s Word Stands -tmp(Rom 9:10-15)
These next few verses wind up being breeding ground for lots of contention. Some have inappropriately used these verses to show that Jacob was “saved” and Esau “damned to hell”. It seems to me that this ignores Paul’s argument at this stage of his defense of the righteousness of God: that being, God’s Word stands [...]
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XX. Romans: God’s Word Stands -tmp(Rom 9:3-9)
The question “what about the Jew” is frighteningly important in it’s historic context. Paul immediately impresses upon the reader how important his kinsmen according to the flesh are since it directly impacts God’s good word. Paul’s not referring to only blood relatives although he makes the blood relation with his countrymen that important. These are [...]
Potter and the Clay (Part 1) Romans 9