What's your solution to that dilemma?
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Who has God called and chosen?' has one perspective on this.
Oz
There are two different scenarios where the term, “called”, is used:
1 Corinthians 1:1 and parallels, where someone is called to be an instrument in Gods hands, teaching, dealing with, vocation:
1 Corinthians 1:1Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 Peter 1:10Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;
John 6:
70Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”
71Now He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray Him.
Matthew 22:2 and parallels where someone is called to participate in receiving spiritual nourishment, teaching, dealing with, revelation:
"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
1 Corinthians 10:
1For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;
2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3and all ate the same spiritual food;
4and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.
Acts 8:
13Even Simon himself believed; and after being baptized, he continued on with Philip, and as he observed signs and great miracles taking place, he was constantly amazed.
Does the passage used by Calvinists to justify "predestination" fit into the above two, or is it a different teaching of its own?
Romans 8:29 and parallels where someone is called because, as Calvinism claims, God “elected” him:
29And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to Hispurpose.
29For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
30and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
First impressions tell us that “calling” in the passage has the meaning of revelation, because of several synecdochal elements. Synecdoches are umbrella terms: if I said 9/11, you’d understand I meant the full idea of what happened on that day. I will explain how I expanded those elements shortly:
Anyhoo, the paraphrase would go like this:
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him, to those who are called according to His plan. For those whom He had a good experience with(!), He also arranged to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the prototype (first sample of the final result) of all His children, and these whom He had arranged to be the final result, He called for receiving revelation towards agreement, and those who He revealed those convincing arguments, He also used for noble purposes because they did become convinced, so they became worthy of glory.