WHO ELECTS THE SAINTS?

Romans 9
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls;)

12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
(Do we argue against God’s sovereign choice and call it unfair, or unethical?)

15 For he said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

16 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
(Universalists and freewill religionists say anyone can be redeemed, but what did Paul say about election?)

17 For the scripture said unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might shew my power in you, and that my name might
be declared throughout all the earth.

18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
(Do the antinomies of the New Testament teach freewill of voluntarism or the enigma of God’s sovereign choice?)

19 You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?

20 Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?

21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

FOOTNOTES.
Romans 9:18. Bibliolatrous interpreters of the Word will extract one verse (10:9) or another (10:13) as arbiters of the whole book of holy writ so they can bypass the rest of the antinomies to support humanisms unbridled freewill as a determinant of salvation.
2 Romans 9:17. (Do the antinomies of the New Testament teach freewill of voluntarism or the enigma of God’s sovereign choice?)
3.Romans 9:16. (Universalists and freewill religionists say anyone can be redeemed, but what did Paul say about election?)
4 Romans 9:14. (Do we argue against God’s sovereign choice and call it unfair, or unethical?)

Bible quouations from the KJV, King James Version (Public Domain)

Noyes in parenthesis reiterated in footnotes by Bible Simply (John David)

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