Confessor
Puritan Board Senior
I ask this with the other option in mind being that unregenerate elect individuals could serve the same purpose.
Often, what one will say when stressing that reprobation serves election is that "there has to be a Judas to betray the Son of Man" or "there has to be a wicked Sanhedrin to crucify Christ." But do they have to be reprobates? Couldn't God have simply used them to sin and then regenerated them?
I usually look towards the "wheat and chaff" analogy to understand this, but I just can't understand why reprobation itself is necessary to serve election, rather than unregenerate elects.
This sounds like a topic which might have already been discussed earlier, but I did not find any other like this, so I apologize if I missed one.
Often, what one will say when stressing that reprobation serves election is that "there has to be a Judas to betray the Son of Man" or "there has to be a wicked Sanhedrin to crucify Christ." But do they have to be reprobates? Couldn't God have simply used them to sin and then regenerated them?
I usually look towards the "wheat and chaff" analogy to understand this, but I just can't understand why reprobation itself is necessary to serve election, rather than unregenerate elects.
This sounds like a topic which might have already been discussed earlier, but I did not find any other like this, so I apologize if I missed one.