When Paul spoke about predestination and election, in Romans, he wasn't sitting at the table with Calvinists when they debated Arminians in the 16th century - he was using the terms in a polemical way against the ideas of the Judaizers, and in an assuring way to the Church - and all as a basis for his appeal to unity in the Church across the Gentile/Jew 'barrier'.
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