Tuesday August 2 – Romans 9:19-33

Why then find fault with people, who are simply chosen or not before they ever do or say anything good or bad? We’d say people were victims of circumstance, products of their environment, not responsible for their failings.

What if God puts up with bad actors to demonstrate mercy to those who are chosen and choose in response faithfulness, either to Torah or to Christ? If nobody is unchosen, and none are able to refuse to choose in response – then the terms are empty.

It is possible for God to choose an additional and new people, as in Hosea. It is possible for a chosen people to choose wrongly in response, as in Sodom and Gomorrah. Without choice and consequences, ‘jews and gentiles’, ‘us and them’ – it’s tyranny. Must this argument be anti-Semitic and supercessionist? No.
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