Posted on 06/19/2009 7:09:41 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Calvin also invented jello, abdominal surgery and the electric blender.
Donchaknow...
The Gospel according to Petronski?
No such thing.
***Calvin also invented jello, abdominal surgery and the electric blender.***
A fine man, especially with the blender on ‘puree’.
He perfected the stern rudder, made the first paper from wood pulp and perfected ammonia-based air conditioning.
Oh, and if there were any justice in this world, we would know Lobster Thermidor as, you guessed it, Lobster Cauvinique.
***Gasp! ***
That is precisely the same reaction our Calvinist comrades and their Pentecostal cheering section have when presented with the Gospels. The message of Jesus is rather clear; I find it interesting that so many would only take a portion of it and construct their own theology from that portion.
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I believe he also invented the hula hoop, but that was a number of years ago.
***He perfected the stern rudder, made the first paper from wood pulp and perfected ammonia-based air conditioning.***
So he had a cool head and could read directions while steering the ship from his behind? Remarkable man. I’m surprised that he didn’t set his sights further than the good burghers of Geneva. He might have made it to, gasp, Berne.
***Oh, and if there were any justice in this world, we would know Lobster Thermidor as, you guessed it, Lobster Cauvinique.***
I prefer my lobster in New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island - the best lobster that I’ve ever had anywhere in the world over nearly two decades. Since PEI is largely Catholic, justice is not served. Little Johnny Calvin needs to stamp his little feet.
***I believe he also invented the hula hoop, but that was a number of years ago.***
I’d rather not picture Calvin in a little grass skirt.
Why not? It might be an improvement.
***Heh. I find it more baffling than interesting.***
I think that it has a lot to do with pride and hubris. And the association of one with a socially elevated group.
The Calvinists associate themselves with God, identifying themselves as the elite and therefore they are better than anyone else. These lickspittle Pentecostals are associating themselves with the Calvinists hoping that their association with them will somehow bring them elevated status as well.
We Catholics tend to be humble, as we are all too aware of our shortcomings.
***Why not? It might be an improvement.***
Don’t look; I beg of you...
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***We Catholics tend to be humble, as we are all too aware of our shortcomings.***
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!
Jesus tells us to pray constantly. Our schismatic friends tell us that they are above that.
What precisely is your criteria for going to heaven? Mine is you must believe in the Lord Jesus to be saved. I didn't know the Bible came with exclusions and waivers.
There is NOTHING from God that was not created for love. Nothing! That God hates nothing by Saint Thomas Aquinas...it is impossible for Him to hate anything.
It's not that God hate us. Rather WE hate God. The WAGES of sin is death. God would not be just if He did not give us our due wages and those wages are death and hell-something that we work for. There is no one that seeks to do His pleasure. God's wrath waits for those who hate Him, not because He hates us.
Therefore God wills the good of everything, and hates nothing.
No, all things works together for good for THOSE WHO LOVE THE LORD JESUS. God rains equally on the just and unjust, but He only makes the trials turn to good for who love His Son.
Some things however God is said, to hate figuratively (similitudinarie), and that in two ways. The first way is this, that God, in loving things and willing their good to be, wills their evil not to be: hence He is said to have hatred of evils, for the things we wish not to be we are said to hate.
With all due respect, it seems St. Tom got wrapped around the axle on this. What gobbledygook. If God willed "their evil not to be" then it would be so. There wouldn't be any evil. But we know this isn't so. There is also NOTHING figuratively about the Lake of Fire or the burning HELL that awaits those who do not believe in His Son. I wonder how St. Tom would square that one.
The truth of the matter is that mankind starting from Adam, showed a desire to hate the things of God. This has progressively gotten worst over the centuries. We are simply evil, wicked, stiff-necked people that God has decided to show mercy. If we could but understand how much God tolerate us, then we would probably be a little more humble.
So a child too mentally retarded to form a belief in Christ goes to hell? Is that your belief?
Evil cannot be a first cause of God because God wills everything good,dear brother.
Evil is a defect from perfection,thus if God willed evil to exist it would part of God's essence and first cause,thus God would have evil in Him and therefore would not be perfect.
Evil can only enter the world by God giving us a free will
That God cannot will Evil By Saint Thomas Aquinas
EVERY act of God is an act of virtue, since His virtue is His essence (Chap. XCII).
2. The will cannot will evil except by some error coming to be in the reason, at least in the matter of the particular choice there and then made. For as the object of the will is good, apprehended as such, the will cannot tend to evil unless evil be somehow proposed to it as good; and that cannot be without error.* But in the divine cognition there can be no error . 3. God is the sovereign good, admitting no intermixture of evil . 4. Evil cannot befall the will except by its being turned away from its end. But the divine will cannot be turned away from its end, being unable to will except by willing itself . It cannot therefore will evil; and thus free will in it is naturally established in good. This is the meaning of the texts: God is faithful and without iniquity (Deut. xxxii, 4); Thine eyes are clean, O Lord, and thou canst not look upon iniquity (Habi, 13).
Please note, I also will not state who went to heaven. And how do you know?
I don’t know.
But I’m not the one who is trying to say somehow that God might send retarded children to hell because they have not done something the cannot do.
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