The foolish shall not stand in thy sight:
thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
–Psalm 5:5 (KJV)–

The Lord trieth the righteous:
but the wicked and him that
loveth violence his soul hateth.
–Psalm 11:5 (KJV)–

Jacob have I loved,
but Esau have I hated.
–Romans 9:13 (KJV)–

Like a bear robbed of her cubs,
I will attack them and rip them open.
Like a lion I will devour them;
a wild animal will tear them apart.
–Hosea 13:8 (NIV)–

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There is no reason, worthy the most wise and gracious God, why he should make known to the world such a thing concerning Esau, who was yet unborn, that he had reprobated him from all eternity. Such a revelation could be of no spiritual advantage or edification to mankind, but rather of a malignant influence, as directly occasioning men to judge hardly of their Maker, and to conceive of him as no faithful Creator; as having no care, no love, no bowels of compassion towards the workmanship of his own hands.
–Adam Clarke–

JESUS DOESN’T



LOVE YOU



NO MATTER



WHAT.

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John Wesley, Calvinism Calmly Considered (Schmul, 2001).

Adam Clarke, Clarke’s Commentary, 1832. “Romans 9:12.”

John Goodwin, An Exposition of the Ninth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans (Baynes and Son, 1835). In the 1640s, this preacher brought a revival of Arminian theology into the Church of England and the Independent churches (non-denominational Puritans around England); and caused many English Protestants to turn away from the Presbyterian and Baptist churches, which taught that God favoritistically elects and chooses people for salvation based on his personal like or dislike of them, without any point of reference to their character or behavior. Also, that God made all of these salvation choices about human beings before he created the world in Genesis 1. Goodwin rebuked all of that teaching; and so he was the forerunner of John Wesley and the Methodists who came a hundred years later; and revived his doctrines again.