Of course some “eternal now” advocates found in the Augustinian-Calvinist camps run to Romans 9 in their attempts to dispute the idea that God desires the salvation of all men. Yet Calvinists ignore the fact that God is “longsuffering” to those this camp usually refers to as the reprobates and endures them: What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory (Rom. 9:22-23) If God had
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