In JW’s “Predestination Calmly Considered”, I think he disagrees
with Calvin’s understanding of double predestination. To JW, the atonement is
universal in scope. Christ’s death was sufficient to atone for the sins of the
whole world, not only an elect few. To him, human beings work together with God
towards salvation. In other words, prevenient grace and human free will (to
certain extent) are the two important factors in salvation. God has more glory
saving human beings as a free agent, instead of saving human beings
irresistibly.
I have two questions on this reading. The first one is JW
mentioned in his article that there are two types of divine election: a divine
appointment of some particular men to do some particular work (he explicitly
mentions that this does not equals to eternal happiness), and a divine
appointment of some men to eternal happiness. However, he didn’t really explain
these two types in detail. So I was wondering what does he mean by these two
types of election and what are the differences between these two types? My
other question is that JW mentions that the gentiles are part of the great
salvation, but many Jews fall short of it since they could not receive it
through faith. I was wondering what’s JW’s perspective on God’s covenant to the
Jews? And what is his general opinion on Judaism?
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