Rodney F. Rafetto
What Paul Saw Hidden in the Messiah
Predestination or Free Will? Which is Biblical? Maybe we’re asking the wrong question.
For nearly five hundred years, two traditions have read the same Bible and arrived at conclusions that appear to contradict each other.
The Calvinist tradition sees God’s sovereignty as absolute and unconditional. The Arminian tradition sees the invitation of the gospel as genuine and wide. Both positions are defended by brilliant, godly, Scripture-saturated thinkers. Both can show you the verses. And neither has resolved the impasse.
What Paul Saw Hidden in the Messiah proposes that the problem is not in the text, but rather in the lenses we bring to read it.
When we read those words through Paul’s first-century Hebrew lenses, something remarkable happens to a debate that has divided the church for five centuries: It begins to dissolve.
The impasse ends here.
Help Launch the Book!
This is a grassroots effort. No publishing house, no marketing budget. Just a pastor who spent forty years with these questions and believes the church is ready for a different kind of conversation about them.
Launch Team members will…
Receive a free, pre-release digital copy of the book.
Purchase the book on Amazon on Launch Day.
Post a review on Amazon during Launch Day.
Promote the book on their social media during Launch Week.
Recommend the book to friends and family.
Sign up here!
Rodney F. Rafetto
Rodney F. Rafetto is a retired Preaching Pastor, teacher, and author. He and his wife, Anita, have been married for 40 years and share a passion for ministry and hospitality. After residing in the greater Philadelphia area for over 65 years, they now make their home in the Appalachian mountains of Pennsylvania.