Becca MahoneyI was blessed to grow up with Christian parents who were very Bible-focused and theologically grounded, so I was introduced to the postsupersessionist truths that Dr. McDermott discusses from an early age. Unfortunately, despite my parents’ best efforts to attend biblically sound churches and schools, I was introduced to some harmful ideas from a young age. Calvinism was one of these. The God of the Old Testament was different than the God of the New, was another. Even a little bit of replacement theology creeped in. (And, I will confess, some of these ideas were not from church or school, but simply arose from my own immature assumptions from reading the Bible.)
All of this led to a time period where I, in my teens and early twenties, I was a fan of John Calvin and a believer in predestination …naturally, this led to some supersessionist ideas.
In my twenties, I had a pretty abrupt turnaround thanks to my brother. If God is not willing that any should perish, He cannot have chosen ahead of time who would be saved and who would go to hell. I focused on studying the Bible as a whole. I am very much enjoying this course as well, as it is introducing me to a broader biblical and historical basis for the truth–that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
