The greatest commandment of the Law is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,” and the purpose of the Law is to reveal sins and to direct sinners to Christ. Therefore, without a doubt, God’s predestination ought to be consistent with the Law He has given to man. Hence, those whom God has elected must be the ones that love God with all their hearts and with all their minds, to turn away from their sins and come to Jesus Christ...
Be it a person, a tribe or a nation, no matter how evil or how much they hate God, they could never free themselves from the control of the almighty God. Even if they should go all out to oppose God and become His arch enemies, God’s plans and His work shall continue to prosper and not be upset or affected by their actions. Instead, their evil ploys would often be further used by God to accomplish His perfect will...
To embrace this doctrine of predestination and accept that God chooses not to predestine some to heaven is already something difficult to swallow, yet if we take a closer look at Romans 9, a greater issue arises. This is something we have avoided all this while and dare not ask God – did God harden the heart of those predestined unto destruction, made them incapable of believing in Jesus and caused them to perish in hell...
Can anyone understand the teachings found in Romans, Chapter 9? Have the mysteries hidden within it exceeded the limits of human comprehension? Should the writer declare that the mysteries hidden in Romans 9 are not only simple fundamental truths, but also truths most familiar to us – would this be too farfetched and hard to believe...