Debating James White on Romans 9

This video is for everyone who has been asking me to do more content involving some tricky passages in the New Testament related to Calvinism. Here I use the content from James White's (@AominOrg ) recent debate as a dialogue partner to talk about some of the thorny issues in this passage. I try to point out why I don't think James' interpretation makes the best sense of the passage when you take its contexts (Old Testament, New Testament, and first century) into account. This video was produced quickly, so please have some grace on any blunders (technical or otherwise) that I make.

Thanks so much to James for providing the content. I appreciate his cheery demeanor and funny quips in the debate. Thanks to AK Richardson for being his debate opponent. I have intentionally blocked AK's face in the thumbnail as a joke. I do not engage with his debate content in this video.

*Please note that when I said ethnicity didn't matter, I meant to say that ethnicity was a fluid category in the ancient world and that Paul is debating what constitutes a true Israelite in relation to their covenant, faithful national identity, and law. See Staples, Paul and the Resurrection, for this point. This was a major mistake. My mind assumed the concept without defining it.*

Thanks to @Soteriology101 for getting me into these conversations. This video was really fun to produce.

Apologies that there is bad resolution for some of the texts. I don't know why that happened.

Thanks for helping with the thumbnail, ‪@WhatYourPastorDidntTellYou‬