The Predestination Only Matters if You Do What the Oracle Tells You

Brent Johnson: Romans 9-11 is a straightforward call to join the family of God. He says Paul's main Jewish audience would have found it hard to accept Gentiles being swept up by scandalous grace. Johnson: In this worldview, those who did not answer the call were still predestined for greatness. They just chose to not do what God had outlined for them.