Those Were The Days – Saturday’s Alright For Fighting

“Alexander MacLaren wrote, ‘The din of many a theological battle has raged round these words.’ Those who hold to a Calvinistic interpretation of Scripture say this text proves that 2God does, in fact, choose some for salvation, while choosing others for damnation. We reject the idea that God does not give mankind a genuine free will. So, what do we do with verse 48?”