{"id":225,"date":"2014-04-30T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/9-thoughts-on-romans-9\/"},"modified":"2014-04-30T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T12:40:00","slug":"9-thoughts-on-romans-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/9-thoughts-on-romans-9\/","title":{"rendered":"9 thoughts on Romans 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year I read through the bible. This morning I read Romans 9. Here are a few brief thoughts about the chapter.<\/p>\n

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  1. It is a very clear chapter.<\/li>\n
  2. It is a very hard chapter.<\/li>\n
  3. If your reading does not lead you to ask “Is God just?” and “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” Then you are reading it wrong. <\/li>\n
  4. Answers to those questions? God is just and stop talking back to God, this is the way it is (Jared’s paraphrase).  <\/li>\n
  5. The chapter has a sting to it.<\/li>\n
  6. I am so thankful that salvation depends on God’s mercy instead of my will and exertion. <\/li>\n
  7. It is completely compatible with Rom 10:13 “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” I don’t understand how it is compatible but it is because the bible says so. <\/li>\n
  8. It means what it says. Don’t be like John Wesley who said “Whatever it means it can’t mean that”. <\/li>\n
  9. You must get past the questions raised in the chapter and cling to the answers given. God is just. You can trust him. Stop talking back. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Every year I read through the bible. This morning I read Romans 9. Here are a few brief thoughts about the chapter. It is a very clear chapter. It is a very hard chapter. If your reading does not lead you to ask “Is God just?” and “Why does he still find fault? For who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}