0:21 We start off with the wrong premise. Paul’s premise is not to ask ‘how can God’s promises be true if the Jews are lost?” In chapter 8 Paul has just extolled all of the blessings that the mostly-gentile believers possessed from their loving God. These are the same blessings that the “children of God,” the Jews, already were known to have. Previously it had been taught for centuries that only the Jews were loved by God and had these blessings. But Christ’s visit dispelled this and solved the great “mystery” as Paul calls it in Ephesians that the Jews weren’t the only ones loved by God. God loves the rest of mankind too. But the Jews certainly didn’t believe that and Paul remembers all the times he argued with them about his message. Several times so far in Romans Paul has touched on the errors of the unbelieving Jewish theology, but each time so far he has focused on what the new believers can learn from those errors. This time though he turns fully to the nonbelieving jews and gives them both barrels. Chapter 9 is not Pauls answer to a new believer’s or gentile’s questioning of whether the Jews’ unbelief doesn’t invalidate God’s promises. No, chapter 9 is Paul’s recollections of the best counter arguments he ever found to destroy their various and sundry objections and this chapter needs to be read in that light.
Good video, good conclusion!
If you have the faith of Abraham, then you are elect.
0:21 We start off with the wrong premise. Paul’s premise is not to ask ‘how can God’s promises be true if the Jews are lost?”
In chapter 8 Paul has just extolled all of the blessings that the mostly-gentile believers possessed from their loving God. These are the same blessings that the “children of God,” the Jews, already were known to have. Previously it had been taught for centuries that only the Jews were loved by God and had these blessings. But Christ’s visit dispelled this and solved the great “mystery” as Paul calls it in Ephesians that the Jews weren’t the only ones loved by God. God loves the rest of mankind too. But the Jews certainly didn’t believe that and Paul remembers all the times he argued with them about his message.
Several times so far in Romans Paul has touched on the errors of the unbelieving Jewish theology, but each time so far he has focused on what the new believers can learn from those errors. This time though he turns fully to the nonbelieving jews and gives them both barrels.
Chapter 9 is not Pauls answer to a new believer’s or gentile’s questioning of whether the Jews’ unbelief doesn’t invalidate God’s promises. No, chapter 9 is Paul’s recollections of the best counter arguments he ever found to destroy their various and sundry objections and this chapter needs to be read in that light.