1. How are we to understand election in Romans 9? What does it mean that God loved Jacob and hated Esau?
  2. All views of election and predestination are not equal. These are doctrines meant to comfort and provide assurance.
  3. As the last confession in the Book of Concord, the Formula of Concord strove to unite a Lutherans around a standard set of answers regarding doctrinal controversy.