tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531953775224262250.post7081181451140671299..comments2023-01-04T16:01:22.970+08:00Comments on Righteous... But Not Yet: St. Augustine On The Hardening Of Pharaoh's HeartJephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904821318321521552noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531953775224262250.post-50926755825681189052011-01-26T02:15:14.925+08:002011-01-26T02:15:14.925+08:00Very good. I concur right down the line.Very good. I concur right down the line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531953775224262250.post-31372866275852242832011-01-13T11:03:18.970+08:002011-01-13T11:03:18.970+08:00*I mean Romans 9:17, not 9:7.*I mean Romans 9:17, not 9:7.Jephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04904821318321521552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531953775224262250.post-25305800153152226602011-01-13T10:58:50.253+08:002011-01-13T10:58:50.253+08:00Tim,
So far as I understand the passage (i.e. Rom...Tim,<br /><br />So far as I understand the passage (i.e. Romans 9:7) and the doctrine, reprobation consists in God's determination not only to withhold grace from certain sinners, but to <i>actively increase</i> their guilt by granting temporal benefits which they willfully abuse. Case in point, God gave Pharaoh political power but withheld regenerating grace. Further, God withheld a degree of restraining grace from him, and by this means built the vessel up higher to hold a greater outpouring of wrath.Jephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04904821318321521552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531953775224262250.post-80730523950300506222011-01-13T06:27:18.658+08:002011-01-13T06:27:18.658+08:00Good quote from the Old Bishop from Hippo. A point...Good quote from the Old Bishop from Hippo. A point of interest: Augustine says, "We must not think that anything is imposed by God whereby a man is made worse, but only that he provides nothing whereby a man is made better." What do you think of that? Must we not think that God is active in hardening, or at least that he can be?<br />-TimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com