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To: xzins; ksen; HarleyD; Vernon; Corin Stormhands; Revelation 911; The Grammarian
Here's another easily diagrammed passage by Jonathan Edwards:

By your choosing Christ for your friend and portion, you will obtain these two infinite benefits.

1) Christ will give himself to you, with all those various excellencies that meet in him, to your full and everlasting enjoyment. He will ever after treat you as his dear friend; and you shall ere long be where he is, and shall behold his glory, and dwell with him, in most free and intimate communion and enjoyment....

Notice the clairity of thought that Mr. Edwards displays when he is preaching LIKE an Arminian as opposed to when he is preaching AGAINST Arminianism.

Coinicidence? I don't think so.

39 posted on 02/10/2004 5:04:49 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o* &AAGG)
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To: P-Marlowe
Free will preaching is so much more clear.

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

Pretty simple, huh?

As opposed to:

"Sit there and listen to this. If it suddenly dawns on you while I'm talking that God picked you to go to heaven and everyone else to go to hell, then you're one of the elect."
41 posted on 02/10/2004 5:25:37 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army and Proud of It!!)
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To: P-Marlowe
You've confused clarity of expression for clarity of thought. So I'll give you a link to a clear expression of Calvinism. God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men "Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to him, who maketh them to differ from others."
47 posted on 02/10/2004 6:18:23 PM PST by A.J.Armitage (http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
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