The context (which Chris and Calvinists ignore) is that of God-worshiping Gentiles. THAT is who is appointed to eternal life and believed the further revelation Paul gave. Not God-hating unbelievers who are totally depraved.
Can’t deny what John ‘The Duke of Denver’ Elway did to put the Mile High City on the map.
Floyd ‘The Franchise’ Little did make it possible for the @Broncos to remain in Colorado.
Both men deserve statues in the new stadium 🏟️
The only coach in NFL history to lead Top-3 offenses in seven consecutive seasons ('92-98), Mike Shanahan is also 1-of-5 ever to coach three AP NFL MVPs (Elway, Young & Davis).
178 wins, back-to-back Super Bowls & the winningest 3-year period in NFL history ('96-98) at the time.
If your view of God so emphasizes His power and control over His enemies that it undermines His self-sacrificial love and provision for them, you have missed what makes the gospel GOOD NEWS.
Notice how Calvinist begs the question by assuming the objector in Romans 9 is a non-Calvinist objecting to reprobation, instead of a unbelieving Jew objecting to the judicial hardening of God for the purpose of engrafting the Gentiles through the crucifixion of their own Messiah—as he goes onto to explain through chapter 11
Many Calvinists are possessed ideologues who are lost intellectually and broken. And the problem with ideologues is they are too possessed to know they are an ideologue, so the rest of us have to deal with their being obnoxious and annoying.