You can’t have a “crucified-for-sinners God” and a “creates-sinners-in-order-to-crucify-them God.” If you want to be biblical, you can’t have a God who is only half like Jesus, because if God is only half like Jesus, he’s nothing like Jesus. So while Romans 9 might be a roaring tiger devouring “free-willers,” the crucified Jesus was a mangled lamb that devoured my Calvinism, which brings us to Revelation 5 and a journey to the center of the universe.
