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The fact is that God showed favor to the Jewish nation and to the genetic descendants of Abraham, Issac and Jacob. If you can't deal with that fact, then that is your problem. I see no problem with God having a "chosen" people and that God chose them for his purposes and for his own reasons.

Why is it that when it comes to practical application, the purist calvinists have more trouble with "Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated" than do us double-predestinarian, quarter-pelagian, calvinists in the tradition of Arminius?

9 posted on 08/10/2006 12:45:49 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Supporting the troops means praying for them to WIN!)

***Why is it that when it comes to practical application, the purist calvinists have more trouble with "Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated"***

I always thought it was a reference to the nation or land area.
Jacob (Israel) I have loved and Esau (Edom) I have hated.

32 posted on 08/10/2006 2:28:15 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have never found a fight they couldn't run from...Ann Coulter)