[Gamecock]

Now you give me one about calvinism.

Hmmmm, that in the entire Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin only dedicates a handful of pages to what we refer to as "Calvinism." (That being the whole TULIP thing, even though he didn't coin that helpful pneumonic) The rest of the 80 chapters and 4 volumes are brilliant, but we tend as Calvinists to ignore them.

[connectthedots]

Hmmmm, that in the entire Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin only dedicates a handful of pages to what we refer to as "Calvinism." (That being the whole TULIP thing, even though he didn't coin that helpful pneumonic) The rest of the 80 chapters and 4 volumes are brilliant, but we tend as Calvinists to ignore them.

that seems, at least on the surface, to be a very fair comment. I suppose a fair response might be if it is possible that the ignored portions might very well shed some light on the TULIP portion that is contrary to what some Calvinists think it means. I would suggest that it does.

[xzins]

That one is not about the doctrine itself. It's about how he wrote his book.

You can try again or not. Your choice.