“The election of one person, as Paul understood it, inevitably reaches beyond the elected person to incorporate, in a variety of ways,… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power of the… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Even the Augustinians, I would note, seem prepared to acknowledge this much: because God has forgiven us and has commanded us to forgive others,… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“With such questions as these, we perhaps approach a critical parting of the ways, a point at which our two pictures of God diverge… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Let no one persuade you that there is in Him a little darkness, because of something he has said which His creature interprets into… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Here is an example of what I mean. One of my professors was far more enlightened than I in his consistent opposition to racial… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“In his commentary on 1 John, however, Calvin saw more clearly than Packer did exactly where the issue must be joined. The issue is… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Some will no doubt balk at the idea that perfect justice in a theistic universe would lay so many requirements, however self-imposed, upon God… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Now I have no doubt that, more often than not, a moral drawn from history lies in the eye of the beholder. But the… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“For insofar as fear of eternal damnation and the power of excommunication, backed by the coercive power of the state, had become the Emperor’s… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying sin altogether,… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
![““The election of one person, as Paul understood it, inevitably reaches beyond the elected person to incorporate, in a variety of ways, the community in which the person lives and, in the end, the entire human race. That is why the election of Abraham is ultimately a blessing to all nations (Gal 3:8), including Esau and his progeny, and why the idea of a “remnant, chosen by grace” (Rom 11:5) played such an important role in Paul’s argument that God has not rejected his people as a whole (11:1). For, contrary to what the Augustinians would have us believe, it was not a mere tautology that Paul here defended; something like, “a remnant, chosen by grace, proves that God has not rejected the remnant, chosen by grace.” Instead, the “remnant, chosen by grace,” proves that God has not rejected the whole of which the remnant is a part. The faithful remnant is always a pledge, in other words, on behalf of the whole, and also the proof that “the word of God” or his “purpose in election” has not failed (9:6). Or, as Paul himself put it in 11:16, “If the part of the dough offered as first fruits [or a faithful remnant] is holy, then the whole batch [that the faithful remnant represents] is holy” in God’s eyes as well.”” quote by Thomas Talbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8c/thomas-talbott-31141_human-race_the-election-of-one-person-as-paul-under_2264314.jpg)
![““Let no one persuade you that there is in Him a little darkness, because of something he has said which His creature interprets into darkness. . . . Neither let your cowardly conscience receive any word as light because another calls it light, while it looks to you dark. Say either the thing is not what it seems, or God never said or did it. But, of all evils, to misinterpret what God does, and then say the thing as interpreted must be right because God does it, is of the devil. Do not try to believe [therefore] anything that affects you as darkness. Even if you mistake and refuse something true thereby, you will do less wrong to Christ by such a refusal than you would by accepting as His what you can see only as darkness.”” quote by Thomas Talbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d3/thomas-talbott-31141_darkness_let-no-one-persuade-you-that-there-is-in_1699088.jpg)
