Liberating you from bad ideas about God
What does Paul mean about divine election in Romans 9 when he writes about God loving Jacob and hating Esau, making what he wants from clay, and hardening Pharaohs heart? This article answers these questions from Romans 9, and also looks at what Romans 11 teaches about divine election.
In my recently published book, The Re-Justification of God, I look at the difficult portion of Romans 9 where Paul says that God loved Jacob but hated Esau. How can we understand these words? Does God really love Jacob and hate Esau?
I look at the two main views of this question, and then propose a mediating third view. This post is simply a summary of the longer explanation in my book.
The Re-Justification of God is my new book. In it, I look at Romans 9:10-24 from a non-Calvinistic perspective.
This book is not really done, but is more of a summary or introduction to much longer and more exegetically-based book that I want to write in the future. Nevertheless, the main ideas are still here, and I invite and encourage your feedback and insight to help me expand upon this book in a future edition.
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