Me Died Blue
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
How would you explain to people the different senses of Jesus' prayer for people as expressed in John 17: 9, 20 ("I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours...I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word") versus in Luke 23:34 ("And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'")?
Granted, one possibility could be that all of the people participating in His crucifixion were elect, but we have no necessary evidence of that without reading more into the text than is there.
Granted, one possibility could be that all of the people participating in His crucifixion were elect, but we have no necessary evidence of that without reading more into the text than is there.