JETS 36:1 (March 1993) p. 40 with other mysteries in Scripture we affirm that our human minds cannot adequately grasp the full import of divine revelation. In this article I have explored whether two of the main objections to a Calvinist exegesis of Romans 9 are persuasive. Those objections are (1) that Romans 9 does not relate to salvation at all but to the historical destiny of Israel and its role in temporal history and (2) that the election described in Romans 9 is not an individual