Hey Shane, I appreciate your heart and your conclusions are spot on. God IS just. This passage in Romans 9 is not teaching that God chooses some people over others. It’s actually the opposite. In Romans 9, Paul is correcting the unbelieving Jews who thought and taught that God chooses some people (them) and not others (the Gentiles.) Their theology was really bad and wrong. Paul isn’t teaching THAT God chooses some and not others, he’s saying to the Jews IF God did that, YOU JEWS would be the Esau, Pharaoh, Ishmael, Sarah, vessels of dishonor. Completely against what they thought. Paul knows God doesn’t do this, which is why he has said in chapters 1-5 that everyone is chosen, and it’s why he says the same things again in chapters 10 & 11. Paul doesn’t just lose his mind here for one chapter. We’ve badly misunderstood what Paul is saying in Romans 9…
Hey Shane, I appreciate your heart and your conclusions are spot on. God IS just.
This passage in Romans 9 is not teaching that God chooses some people over others. It’s actually the opposite. In Romans 9, Paul is correcting the unbelieving Jews who thought and taught that God chooses some people (them) and not others (the Gentiles.) Their theology was really bad and wrong. Paul isn’t teaching THAT God chooses some and not others, he’s saying to the Jews IF God did that, YOU JEWS would be the Esau, Pharaoh, Ishmael, Sarah, vessels of dishonor. Completely against what they thought. Paul knows God doesn’t do this, which is why he has said in chapters 1-5 that everyone is chosen, and it’s why he says the same things again in chapters 10 & 11. Paul doesn’t just lose his mind here for one chapter. We’ve badly misunderstood what Paul is saying in Romans 9…
Chapter 9 is terrific, if you know what Paul’s talking about.