Potter Metaphor

Predestination and Free Will in Romans 9 – 11, by Mako A. Nagasawa

October 10, 2018, posted by finney.raju

Editor’s Note: Mako Nagasawa does not formally identify as Arminian, but his essay is a good representation of the narrative understanding of election shared by many Arminians.  Romans 9 – 11 is sometimes taken as…

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Accepting/Rejecting Calvinism
(Pt. 9: The Potter)

August 7, 2017, posted by jordanjapo

This is from a series of posts which was copied with permission from Jordan Apodaca’s blog, “Thoughts & Anti-Thoughts,” which can be accessed here: https://jordanapodaca.wordpress.com/ This particular post, which allows comments, can be accessed here:…

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Charles Edward White, “Does God Call All the Shots?”

March 18, 2015, posted by SEA

Please see below or click on the attachment to view Charles Edward White, “Does God Call All the Shots?” Light and Life (July/August 2003), pp. 29-31. Does God Call All the Shots? By Charles Edward White   …

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Charles Edward White, “John Calvin’s Five-point Misunderstanding of Romans 9: An Intertextual Analysis”

March 3, 2015, posted by SEA

Please click on the attachment to view Charles Edward White, “John Calvin’s five-point misunderstanding of Romans 9: An Intertextual Analysis,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 41 (Fall 2006) 28-50.

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God, Pharaoh, and God’s Sovereignty in Romans 9

February 24, 2015, posted by

In Udo Middelmann’s The Innocence of God, he grants us biblical evidence advocating the truth that God is innocent of the tragedies and evil experienced by and among fallen human beings. God has neither decreed…

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Micah Currado, “Early Church Fathers on the Freedom of the Will and Romans 9”

October 14, 2014, posted by Vincentian

Please click on the link to view “Early Church Fathers on the Freedom of the Will and Romans 9.”  The early church resoundingly affirmed the liberty of the will, in spite of the well-known philosophical option…

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Why I Am An Arminian
Part VI: Convinced by Scripture

December 20, 2013, posted by Martin Glynn

In this final post, I’ll look at the most important reason for believing any theology: why I think Arminianism is what the Scripture teaches. One thing that you may notice though is that I am…

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Romans 9: The Potter and the Clay

August 7, 2008, posted by SEA

Up to this point in this series on Romans 9, I have argued the following points: The passages dealing with election in Romans 9 must be interpreted in the context of Paul’s overall theme in…

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