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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
I hope you are correct. I've always thought context established by chapter 8 lends this passage toward a deterministic interpretation. I should re-read the epistle.
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I don't think there are too many hard core Calvinists out there anymore, although I have met a few, but only in Holland where most protestants come from the Calvinist tradition. Most US evangelicals I know like to include a free will element into their beliefs, but holding to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy would seem to make it hard for them to accept this verse. I don't know how they deal with it. I've never heard an explanation.