Wednesday 5 March 2014

Predestination

When Paul discussed predestination in Rom.9-11, he had a different purpose in mind than to answer the question which Calvin's and Arminius' followers debated centuries later.

Paul's purpose was to show that it was within God's sovereign right and plan not to have saved the Israeli nation on the basis that they were Jewish or that they had Moses' Law, but to save individuals - Jew or Gentile - on the basis of whether or not he accepts Jesus.

Paul defends this Gospel by showing that the outcome which God had allowed in ethnic Israel was within His sovereign right - within His use of nationhood - and it was also an outcome which the Prophets themselves had foreseen anyway.

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