This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
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Romans 9:10-13 – “Not Based on Works” – Jacob and Esau
Romans 9:6-9 – “Not Based on Ethnicity” – Isaac and Ishmael
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
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Romans 9:24-29 – Whom Has God “Called”? What Does “Called” Mean?
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
Romans 9:22-23 – Why Does God Put Up with Unbelieving Ethnic Israelites? Can ‘Vessels of Wrath’ Become ‘Vessels of Mercy’?
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
Romans 9:20-21 – Do unbelieving ethnic Israelites have a right to criticise God’s judgement? – The potter and the clay
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
Romans 9:19-20 – Is It Right for God to Find Fault with Unbelieving Ethnic Israelites?
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
Craig Keener and John Walton, “The Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart” from the “NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible”
From the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, edited by Craig S. Keener and John H. Walton. This article explains how Egyptians would have understood their pharaoh’s heart “hardening.” It’s similar to the ideas expressed in…
Romans 9:17-18 – God’s Right to Harden – Pharaoh
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
Romans 9:14-16 – God’s Right to Show Mercy – Moses
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
Overview of Romans 9:6-13 – Has God Been Unfaithful to Ethnic Israel?
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
Friday Files, 5 June 2020
The Friday Files is SEA’s weekly look back at our archives. Our members’ names are in blue. Not everything in them reflects SEA’s positions (including my summaries), but they’re considered of interest to Arminians. From…
Kingswood Hart, “Introduction to Romans 9:6-29”
This is part of a series of posts on Romans. The main focus of this series will be chapters 9-11 of the letter. These chapters, particularly chapter 9, have been interpreted in various different ways.…
The Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism – Responding To Ed Dingess’ Follow Up Response
I wrote a blog post a couple of years ago titled “The Maximally Great Argument For Arminianism” which attempted to show that God’s universal salvific will logically flows out of Perfect Being Theology. The argument…
Friday Files, 29 May 2020
The Friday Files is SEA’s weekly look back at our archives. Our members’ names are in blue. Not everything in them reflects SEA’s positions (including my summaries), but they’re considered of interest to Arminians. From…
Calvinists and The Fallacy Of Illegitimate Totality Transfer
You may remember my blog post series on logical fallacies way back in 2016 when Cerebral Faith was still on a Blogspot platform. There were 28 posts each examining a formal or informal fallacy that often…
Jim Boucher Responds To The Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism
The Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism (here on abbreviated a MGAAC) attempts to show that the Arminian tenet of God’s universal salvific will and unlimited atonement logically flow out of Perfect Being Theology (i.e that…
Addressing Ed Dingess’ Critique Of My Prevenient Grace Article
I recently was contacted by a theologian named Ed Dingess who runs the website www.reformedreasons.com letting me know that he had wrote a “refutation” of my Maximally Great Argument against Calvinism, and if you’ve been…
Friday Files, 22 May 2020
The Friday Files is SEA’s weekly look back at our archives. Our members’ names are in blue. Not everything in them reflects SEA’s positions (including my summaries), but they’re considered of interest to Arminians. From…
Sarah Davis, “Ravi Zacharias, Now with Jesus”
Message from Sarah Davis, Ravi Zacharias’s daughter, saying goodbye to one of the greatest Christian apologists of modern times. From: https://www.rzim.org/read/rzim-updates/ravi-zacharias On January 4, my dad recited a stanza from this hymn from the…
