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To: xzins; drstevej; OrthodoxPresbyterian; CCWoody; Wrigley; Gamecock; Jean Chauvin; jboot; ...
dortist

Kindly stop making up your own words and rules around here, xzins.

In fact, a Google search of "dortist" produces ONLY YOUR FREE REPUBLIC POSTS fabricating the word, "dortist."

So unless you want to be met with the word, "Doofus," every time you use it, please stop it.

There's Calvinists (me) and Arminians (you). Monergistic salvation and synergistic salvation. Several shades exist within those two groups, but these historical, factual terms are precise enough for our two sides to communicate (assuming that's your intent.)

As Orwell informed us, "He who controls the language, controls the debate." Let's get beyond petty "control" and try to make some sense of our positions.

346 posted on 01/23/2005 4:03:35 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: xzins; Dr. Eckleburg

At any rate, the abbreviation of Dordrecht is spelled "Dordt", not "Dort".


347 posted on 01/23/2005 4:05:58 PM PST by Lexinom (www.revotewa.com - Go DINO! www.illegitimategovernor.com)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; xzins
In fact, a Google search of "dortist" produces ONLY YOUR FREE REPUBLIC POSTS fabricating the word, "dortist."

"Did you mean to search for artist?"

xzins does sorta have that bohemian artist things going on...

348 posted on 01/23/2005 4:07:21 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (All we have to decide is what to do with the crap that we are given...)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

simply a spelling problem....albeit, I'll simply call it an anglicization. :>)

Dordt & Dort = phonetic anglicization.


352 posted on 01/23/2005 4:17:44 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Truly, it is ~not~ shocking that our confused and disturbed neener FRiends would try to dress up in Biblical confessions of faith. It's the old "wolf in sheeps clothing" thing.

The delicious irony is that on a supposed conservative forum what is displayed is exactly the zeitgeist of contemporary liberalism. All things are tolerable except for dogmatic priniciple. The best way to defeat principle is to dilute it's meaning through a synergistic reformulation. As you so correctly pointed out it is confiscating language and sppropriating what has historically been an agreed upon meaning and using those same words to connote differing concepts. What is especially seditious about this methodology is that the sheep will mimic the confessions believing that the concepts taught are the same concepts held historically. Not understanding that the sheep they are following is actually a wolf they follow to their own destruction.


426 posted on 01/24/2005 7:24:02 AM PST by GLENNS
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