Romans 9-11 discusses specific issues of concern to the first-century believers at Rome - and the question which students of Arminius and Calvin debated centuries later was not one of those concerns!
To fail to identify the issues which Paul's statements in those chapters were designed to address, and instead make his statements about a topic which became a popular issue many centuries later, would be a bit like reading instructions in a recipe book about how to avoid a flat cake, and trying to apply the instructions to the question, "How to avoid a flat tyre".
It would be like a baseball landing on a football field in midplay.
To fail to identify the issues which Paul's statements in those chapters were designed to address, and instead make his statements about a topic which became a popular issue many centuries later, would be a bit like reading instructions in a recipe book about how to avoid a flat cake, and trying to apply the instructions to the question, "How to avoid a flat tyre".
It would be like a baseball landing on a football field in midplay.
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