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To: american colleen; dangus
"Sorry, John Calvin has twisted "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth" and "Who gave himself a ransom for all" into something that fits with his personal biblical interpretation...

Well, at least you made it to the third paragraph.

56 posted on 06/16/2004 12:42:47 PM PDT by HarleyD (For strong is he who carries out God's word. (Joel 2:11))
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To: HarleyD
No, I read the whole thing although it took me awhile to absorb the language and reflect on what he wrote. The whole thing boils down to him putting his own interpretation and adding to Scripture in order to get out from under "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." His entire explaination hinges on a lack of free will and as far as I can discern, the command to evangelize is more for the evangelizer than it is for the evangelizee, who is doomed from eternity anyway (although Calvin says they are created in the image of God).

Maybe you, a believer in what John Calvin taught, could boil it down to a few on point paragraphs instead of using about 40 paragraphs to explain a few lines of the bible?

162 posted on 06/17/2004 7:26:56 AM PDT by american colleen
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