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To: Illbay; drstevej; Calvinist_Dark_Lord
Calvinism was simply a new, wrong way to look at our relationship with God, that replaced an old, wrong way

As everyone on these threads knows, I am not now nor have I ever been a "Calvinst." But there is no doubt that the principles of "Calvinsim" are taught in the Bible, specifically by Jesus in John chapter 3 and by Paul and the author of Hebrews. The doctrines of election and predestination are principles that would be impossible for a mormon to believe, because a mormon believes in a FINITE GOD. Only an infinite God could know from the foundation of the earth who will or will not be saved, as the infinite God has no beginning and has no end and is not bound by the strictures of the dimension of time.

Your puny little man/god was supposedly promoted to the position of "god" by some superior being at some point in the past and the future for him is as clear as mud. Your dream of becoming like him will quite possibly come true as your finite man/god is surely destined for the same eternal fate as satan and his angels.

When your "organizer of the earth" god meets the Creator of the Universe God, there will be no doubt as to whom you will bow. But, if you keep worshiping this minature man/god, by then it will be too late.

420 posted on 02/18/2003 7:20:03 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Are you ready to meet your "Organizer?")
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To: P-Marlowe
Why do all the Mormon threads always end up in the Smokey Backroom? I know you guys don't smoke.
421 posted on 02/18/2003 7:27:00 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: P-Marlowe
The doctrines of election and predestination are principles that would be impossible for a mormon to believe, because a mormon believes in a FINITE GOD.

Well, first of all, do you or do you NOT believe in these Calvinist principles?

First you say you don't, then you imply you do. Which is it?

And of course we don't believe in a "Finite God." That statement is preposterous.

What we believe in is "free agency." And that is a gift of a loving God.

428 posted on 02/18/2003 7:36:40 PM PST by Illbay (Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy. -- 2 Nephi 25)
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