Regarding "reprobate" doctrine of Steven Anderson. Specifically Romans 1.
Ever notice that the context of Romans 1 is not unsaved people, but saved people?
How? It says they that know God are the ones that are reprobated.
Romans 1
21 Because that, when THEY KNEW GOD, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that THEY MIGHT KNOW thee the only true GOD, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
It says here they are covenantbreakers:
Roman's 1:31
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Proverbs 2:16-17
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the COVENANT OF HER GOD.
But the clincher here is in the next chapter:
Romans 2
1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Paul literally says you, whoever was reading, as a saved person, are guilty of the same things.
Reprobation has more to do with the saved rejecting God, than the unsaved rejecting God.
1 Corinthians 5:5
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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