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Available Light: A note on Rom 2:8-13

As I mentioned earlier, among Protestants, it’s unnerving to be told we’ll be judged by our merits, as Paul plainly says in Rom 2:8-13, among many other passages. In his recent book Justification, N. T. Wright explains how this does … Continue reading

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Available Light: Consideration of Romans 1 – 2

We are considering a post by Al Maxey and another post by Leroy Garrett arguing that, for those who’ve never heard the gospel, their salvation will be determined based on their response to what they know of God from other … Continue reading

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Election: Romans 8:31-39 (“we are more than conquerors”)

Indeed — (Rom 8:31-34)  What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all–how will … Continue reading

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Election: Romans 8:29 (“those God foreknew he also predestined”)

(Rom 8:29)  For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. Whom did God “foreknow”? The word only appears one other time in the … Continue reading

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Election: Romans 8:28 (“called according to his purpose”)

We’ve already considered the core of this magisterial passage. But my proposed interpretation of chapters 9 – 11 so radically changes our understanding of 8:28 ff, it’s critical that we consider chapter 8 in light of chapters 9 – 11 … Continue reading

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Election: Romans 11, Part 6 (“they are enemies on your account”)

(Rom 11:28-29) As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. Notice … Continue reading

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Election: Romans 11, Part 5 (“Israel has experienced a hardening”)

(Rom 11:25-27) I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And … Continue reading

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Election: Roman 11, Part 4 (“you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in”)

(Rom 11:16a) If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; Paul sees the Gentiles and Jews as part of the same whole. The faithful Jews are the firstfruits sacrificed at the … Continue reading

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Election: Romans 11, Part 3 (“salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious”)

(Rom 11:11) Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. Paul makes two points. His second is that … Continue reading

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Election: Romans 11, Part 2 (“God gave them a spirit of stupor”)

(Rom 11:7-8) What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, 8 as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see … Continue reading

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