[CCWoody]

Bruce Almighty is an insightful lampoon on a God who "can't mess with free will." ~ drstevej

Apart from the fact that it is obvious that the Atheists think the Arminian god is a doofus (remember all the interesting comments I get from Atheists when I delcare to them the Biblical Calvinist's image of God), I have a question to wring the non-Calvinist's noodle in knots:



1. Is God not smart enough figure out how to have His desire for all to freely come to Him?
   
   --- OR ---
   
   
2. Is God not powerful enough to bring about His desire for all to freely come to Him?

The amusing thing here is that I can freely grant to you pretty much whatever you want, ask these questions and you are theologically checkmated because you cannot answer them without blasphemying God. And I do find that terribly amusing.

As a Calvinist, I firmly believe that God is both powerful enough and smart enough to bring about any desire that He has, which makes Him much more interesting than the bumbling incompetent Arminian version.


• I firmly believe that whatever His soul desires, that He does.
• I firmly believe that He does according to His will among the inhabitants of the earth.
• I firmly believe that He does whatever He pleases.

Woody.

[mcg1969]

One of these days I'll bet we'll get to heaven to find out that neither the Calvinists nor the Arminian's have it figured out. We'll all have a good laugh about the whole thing (with perhaps some mourning that perhaps our infighting drove away some souls), and then we'll promptly set it a side to get down to the business of enjoying our eternal home and worshipping its landlord.

[Pahuanui]

The amusing thing here is that I can freely grant to you pretty much whatever you want, ask these questions and you are theologically checkmated because you cannot answer them without blasphemying God.

Yawn.

You have, by couching the question in such a manner, intellectually checkmated yourself, because to introduce 'blasphemy' into the equation is assuming a predetermined set of conditions already exist, thus assuring from the beginning that all contentions are, by default, skewed in favor of one outcome.

And I do find that terribly amusing.

What's amusing is that you aren't even aware of what you did.

[Campion]

I have a question to wring the non-Calvinist's noodle in knots ... Is God not smart enough ... Is God not powerful enough ...

Woody, are you not subtle enough to understand the concept of wanting two or even three things at once, not just one, even though those two things might be in conflict ... a conflict that is sometimes inherently logically irreconciliable, no matter how much intellect is applied?

Because I am, and if you are, I wonder why you don't grant that God might be at least as intelligent and discerning as you are.