Personally, I think Ephesians 1 is a pretty powerful election text and equally clear.

Non Calvinist scholars (particularly those schooled in our post-modern era) say that we only see election in Romans 9 because we "privilege" the election verses over the free will verses. They argue that if we privileged the free will verses we would explain "away" the apparent predestinarian Paul of Romans 9 the same way we currently explain "away" the apparent free will emphasis of the NT in favor of infra or supralapsarian decretial theology.

[Yech! I can't stand post-modern thinking!!!]

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