Also if grace does not proceed from God's grace within Himself which is almighty, just, and so on, where does it come from? And if it is not legally based on the cross of Christ, how is it just? And if it is based on the cross of Christ, how are the recipients not delivered from hell, since Christ's atonement was substitutionary and complete?
What about when God speaks graciously towards Israel as a whole, when many in that nation were actually not saved? God often addresses the entire nation of Israel graciously, but it is directed towards the elect kernel within the nation as considered as an organic whole, like a grain of wheat surrounded by chaff and supported by a stem, or like a wheat field in which tares are also present. John the Baptist spoke of the Day of Judgment when no longer will the chaff be among the wheat, but God would clear His threshing floor.
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