Pre-Destination, God's Foreknowledge and Choice

no, Paul said, they were broken off due to disbelief, nothing that God did to them.

God is so incredibly magnificent that words fail to describe Him. We sing a song sometimes called " O For A Thousand Tongues ". And yet, even were we all to have a 1,000 tongues to sing our great Redeemer's praise, we would fall short of the praise He is due.

I believe it was R. C. Sproul who said there was not one maverick molecule in the universe. A simple perusal of the Bible demonstrates this and that history is under divine control and following a divine timetable and fulfilling divine purposes. And to view history as a series of random events is to miss the point of creation in the first place.

I am always intrigued, though, as you seem to be, how individuals come to believe as they do.

Events cannot be random.

There is a strong predetermined line of events throughout the history of the universe, undeniable.

Yet, so few believe in Jesus.

Romans 3:10 and following explains why.

Which means that there is no longer a special, chosen nation of Israel.

just means, WE are all EQUAL, but No One has Replaced Israel and No One ever will.

So does the Jew come first or is it a level playing field?

In Paul's era the Jew came first.

the Bible plainly states the Jew first.
and then later it's stated, there's no Jew nor Gentile.

I truly believe, if a Jew and Gentile, both, simultaneously came to follow Christ at the same time, God, isn't personally Saving the Jew first but saving them both at the same time.

Can someone quote the verse here. I always thought it just meant Jesus came first to the house of Israel and now the focus is on the whole world.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Do you believe that this is intended to prioritize evangelism to Jews over Gentiles, or simply that the gospel was first delivered to Jews and then Gentiles?

Can someone quote the verse here. I always thought it just meant Jesus came first to the house of Israel and now the focus is on the whole world.

Romans 11:25
For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Well is it a level playing field?

Romans 11:25
For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Well is it a level playing field?

I think it was always God's plan. The hardening is just the means God chose to use.

Did God harden them to the truth or were they stubborn and rebellious?

Romans 3:10 and following explains why.

Isaiah 46:10

Did God harden them to the truth or were they stubborn and rebellious?