When Leighton did a debate with White about Roman’s 9, there will never be enough to satisfy White. And the president of the ministry defending White against Leighton with murder in his eyes and expression. Because they want to be the tutor and have tutor control. You know, like their daddy. I would just defer to the Romans 9 debate for that answer.
I don’t see Romans 9 as much about His sovereign choice (or continuity of sovereignty in doctrines of grace) as it is about Christ. So yes I would see the doctrine of election as man’s power of thought, psychology, and philosophy in contrast to “the Man” Jesus Christ. The reason for Romans 9 is to demonstrate how God’s divine promises have not be overturned despite His dissolving Israel from their orator post. But the focus of import is lineage more than His sovereign rite. Although certainly from chapter 3 we can see there are things about His sovereign rite, amen. I don’t think God is as fixated as Calvinists would like Him to be on that. To me, Calvinism has God as a narcissist. What God is showing in Romans is that God is demonstrating His sovereign choice of lineage to be given His Son. And that God’s sovereign choice of His Son over Isreal does not mean God changed anything or that things have shifted so much that God is scrambling for a new plan.
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More than a salutation:
Chapter 1
**2 **which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, **3 **concerning His Son, who was born of a [b]descendant of David according to the flesh, **4 **who was declared the Son of God with power according to the [c]Spirit of holiness [d]by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
Paul does not open with election but Christ and promise…tone setter.
Chapter 9
**4 **who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and daughters, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the temple service, and the promises; **5 **whose are the fathers, and from whom is the [b]Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed [c]forever. Amen.
Romans 15:8
“For I say that Christ became a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, to confirm the promises given to the fathers.”
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Woven throughout. You see man’s theology of His sovereignty (God’s not mans). I see Christ. The promise. The potters promise.