To: fortheDeclaration
I have to admit that as an Anglican (with a Lutheran background) I always get a kick out of watching the Calvinists and Anticalvinists fight over this sort of thing.
7 posted on
06/30/2003 9:17:16 PM PDT by
ahadams2
(who says we're supposed to be able to understand how God functions anyway?)
To: ahadams2
Well, I don't mean to frighten you, but Wesley was an Anglican.
8 posted on
07/01/2003 6:37:36 AM PDT by
Corin Stormhands
(http://wardsmythe.crimsonblog.com)
To: ahadams2
Actually, it all is done for your benefit.
9 posted on
07/01/2003 6:50:55 AM PDT by
drstevej
To: ahadams2
I have to admit that as an Anglican (with a Lutheran background) I always get a kick out of watching the Calvinists and Anticalvinists fight over this sort of thing. So, you have a bit of the sadist in you do you? :>)
To: ahadams2; drstevej
I find it more amusing to watch Episcopalians and Lutherans argue over ordaining homosexuals. (Except of course the Missouri Synod )
19 posted on
07/03/2003 11:40:17 AM PDT by
Gamecock
( Swarming Calvinist)
To: ahadams2; drstevej
BTW, what's your opnion of this bit of Anglican Doctrine:
Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby, before the foundations of the world were laid, He has constantly decreed by His counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom He has chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation as vessels made to honour. Wherefore they which are endued with so excellent a benefit of God are called according to God's purpose by His Spirit working in due season; they through grace obey the calling; they are justified freely; they are made sons of God by adoption; they are made like the image of His only-begotten Son Jesus Christ; they walk religiously in good works; and at length by God's mercy they attain to everlasting felicity.
As the godly consideration of Predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it greatly establishes and confirms their faith of eternal salvation to be enjoyed through Christ, as because it fervently kindles their love towards God: so for curious and carnal persons, lacking the Spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God's Predestination is a most dangerous downfall, whereby the devil thrusts them either into desperation or into wretchedness of most unclean living no less perilous than desperation.
20 posted on
07/03/2003 11:44:51 AM PDT by
Gamecock
( Swarming Calvinist)
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