[xzins]

To be serious for a moment (which has been hard the last 24 hours), I'm fully dedicated to being an unadulterated biblical christian.

As such, I am unconvinced by many theologies, although I understand the necessity of using "theologies" to piece the doctrines of the bible together. It seems there are 3 or 4 great theologies in Christianity....Catholic, Arminian, Calvinist being the most publicized.

I am not Catholic because of doctrines that derive from its mariology and its handling of scripture.

I am not Calvinist because it maintains that God shows favoritism, and it undervalues faith and love.

I am not Arminian because it posits a world where real action and consequence is not possible.

I am unfettered, unaligned.

[Diamond]

I am not Calvinist because it maintains that God shows favoritism, and it undervalues faith and love.

I became a Calvinist before I knew what Calvinism was, simply by memorizing the first 14 chapters of Romans as a youngster.

¹¹Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad--in order that God's purpose in election might stand: ¹²not by works but by him who calls--she was told, "The older will serve the younger."^{[4] 13}Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."^[5]
14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! ¹⁵For he says to Moses,
   "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
       and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."^{[6] 16}It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.

Cordially

[RnMomof7]

I am not Calvinist because it maintains that God shows favoritism, and it undervalues faith and love.

Only in your mind X

Remember that God chose Jacob over Essau

The depraved do not value faith or divine love.