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1 | Why does God love Jacob but reject Esau? | Rom 9:13 | YellowJasmine | 93334 | ||
Why does God choose to love Jocob and reject Esau? | ||||||
2 | Why does God love Jacob but reject Esau? | Rom 9:13 | DarcyA | 93338 | ||
The Bible doesn't say that God rejected Esau. For God doesn't reject any one we reject Him. Also my belief is that verse where it says Esau I hated....I believe He is talking about the nations of Esau as a whole. Not as an individual person. With that being said you read the account of Jacob and essua you will see that Esau was a worldly person not a spiritual person. He gave up his Birth right for a fleshly thing. (Food) It also hints at the fact that the blessing that Esua didn't care if the "seed" or Messiah came from his line or not. |
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3 | Why does God love Jacob but reject Esau? | Rom 9:13 | Hank | 93344 | ||
Yellow Jasmine, DarcyA is right. Actual emotional hatred of Esau is not the point here. Paul in this verse (Romans 9:13) is quoting from Malachi 1:2,3. Malachi, who wrote his words some 1,500 years after the death of Jacob and Esau, is reflecting on the lives of these two men and by extension on the nations of Israel and Edom that were the descendents of Jacob and Esau respectively. God chose the one nation, Israel, for divine blessing and protection but not the other. Why? We don't have all the answers. If everyone knew everything there is to know about the mind of God, everyone would understand the mysteries of God's election, and all debates on God's election and man's free will would cease. But no one does. God is a holy and righteous God, and He is also sovereign. Most of us would have little problem grappling with the attributes of the holiness and righteousness of God, but when it comes to His absolute sovereignty, are we truly prepared to humble ourselves in submission to His sovereignty enough to accept the shock that He is the potter and we are the clay? (cf. Romans 9:23). | ||||||
4 | Why does God love Jacob but reject Esau? | Rom 9:13 | YellowJasmine | 93374 | ||
Thank you Darcy and Hank, I am a new Christian, and my husband and I are attend a weekly small group and we are studying Romans. I really appreciate what you all have to say to help me understand God's word. Thank you Darcy I do understand that God didn't reject Esau, as he never rejects anyone. But it was so hard to understand how God could hate anyone. But as I hear and read more I am begining to understand that it isn't a personal hate for one person but maybe as you said as a nation. God has our life mapped out before we are even born and could it be that he knew that Easau would want things of earthly value, even so much as to give up his birthright? So to show God's almighty power that He elects even between two sons from the same parents, and the one he elects prospers and the other doesn't? | ||||||
5 | Why does God love Jacob but reject Esau? | Rom 9:13 | DarcyA | 93384 | ||
Welcome to the Family. And stay in the Word. I believe God knows everything and He knew Esau and what He would do in his life. I feel I should state this though, Esau choices were Esau's choices God did not force Esau to do what Esau did. The ecect is a mystrey to me. But As you read through the Old Testiment you will probably notice that the blessings usually went to the younger son not the older. Or better yet the second son. FOr example Jacob and Esau, Issac and Ishmael and the list goes on. One of the reasons for this is Because Jesus is called the second Adam 1 Cor 15:22 "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive." (1 Cor 15:22) "So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (1 Cor 15:45) So from these verses we learn that The First Adam came death and the Second Adam gave us life. God Bless |
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