“And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?” (CSB – Read the chapter)
Is there anyone too far gone for God to save them? That’s certainly a question believers have wrestled with over the centuries of church history. We wonder this objectively. We muse on it when thinking about public atheists and whether it is possible for them to finally come around. We agonize over it when the individuals in question are family members. What Paul says about Israel as a genetic people here speaks some to the question. Check this out with me.
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