Piper on Romans 9:20

This is not a blanket-endorsement of Piper by any stretch of the imagination. But Piper is correct in his assessment of the utter foolishness of Forster and Marston. John Piper, from his book The Justification of God: “Forster and Marston are pressed by the weight of this argument to give a unique and wholly improbable [...]

Who is the Apostolic critic in Romans 9:19? (part 1)

Many Calvinists and Arminians in trying to explain the passage in question end up becoming Paul’s objector to the Godhood of God (i.e., the sovereignty of God). They are wonderfully confused about the simple, basic, fundamental, elementary teaching that they are not God. Even many famous, fashionable, and highly esteemed Calvinist theologians’/preachers’ treatments of passages [...]

Justified by Christ’s blood

“God commends His love to us in this, that we being yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him” (Romans 5:8-9). I think it was a self-righteous tolerant Calvinist who said that “evangelical Arminians believe that apart from Christ’s [...]

John Brown (of Edinburgh) on Romans 9:18

The following is John Brown’s (of Edinburgh) take on Romans 9:18, specifically what he thinks it means for God to “harden” someone: “It may be asked how can God harden men’s hearts? There can be no doubt that it would be utterly inconsistent with the holiness and equity of the Divine nature, by direct influence [...]

Why does He yet find fault?

The following is a Guest post by Marc D. Carpenter: Thanks to C-Dunc for alerting me earlier to the Piper quote (that quoted Morris and Stott)! Amazingly, Piper affirms unconditional hardening, yet he is a hyper-conditionalist when it comes to salvation! After C-Dunc gave me the Piper quote, I was able to do a little [...]

John Piper and unconditional hardening

One of the more famous Calvinists in Reformed circles is John Piper. He is especially heterodox in that he posits multitudinous conditions for salvation that God by “grace” enables the sinner to do. It is verses like Romans 11:6 that contradict Piper’s “hyper-conditionalism.” I say “hyper-conditionalism” since most Calvinist or Reformed persons wrongly say that [...]