What Does Romans 9 REALLY Mean? #podcast #shorts

[0:00]Ladies and gentlemen, you've been predestined to freely listen to this podcast. We're talking about Romans chapter nine. What does it mean? Many Calvinists will say you don't have a choice and God hardens people and who are you to talk back to God and all this. Does this mean we don't have free will? This kind of concept where God gives you up to your own desires is taught in the Old Testament and it's taught in the New Testament. Now here's the problem, though, for Calvinists. The fact that hearts are hardened contradicts the Calvinist definition of total depravity, because they say our hearts are already hardened. Knowledge does not automatically imply causation. Just because you know what somebody's going to do, doesn't mean you're causing him to do it. Man can have free will, God can have free will, and God can still be sovereign, and that's not contradictory.