@Guitardo7@JCBibleInsights What if God, though willing to display wrath and make known his power, instead patiently brought forth instruments of wrath, outfitted for destructive use, He did so in order also to make known the riches of his glory upon instruments of mercy?
@Methodist_Prime@Hyperbolaman This is exactly the problem with reformed discourse today. They can’t get over their own. parochialism, so many people try to fit others’ views into their grid and then contrast it with their views. Thats how you get:
@The_OriginalOB Ok.
In Romans 9, Paul makes reference to Cyrus the Great twice, once as his “Vessel of Wrath” and again as “his anointed” and “my shepherd.”
@RevReads289 We always do our second greatest desire.
Our first greatest desire is to always do our greatest desire, our second greatest desire is to always do our second greatest desire.
Therefor we always do our second greatest desire. Prove me wrong.
@pleas_evans@LutheranAnswers I seriously assumed this mean they would have a kid. Isn’t that the most straight forward reading of two people becoming one flesh?
@Soteriology101@1984_nate@Pastor_ChrisH See Rom 9:
But what if God, wishing to demonstrate his wrath & make his power known, patiently brought forth instruments of wrath outfitted for destruction, & did so in order to make known the riches of his glory upon instruments of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory