[Dr. Eckleburg]

I continue to admire your stamina, your righteous Biblical knowledge, your incisive, logical and Scriptural rebuttals, and your patience.

I had no idea these threads were filled with so much "oh-yeah-sez-who-make-me-what's-it-to-ya?"

[SoothingDave]

I continue to admire your stamina, your righteous Biblical knowledge, your incisive, logical and Scriptural rebuttals, and your patience.

Since you think that, can you explain in a Calvinist context, what Terry meant by saying that those in hell are there cause they have rejected God's mercy? I thought those destined for hell did not have the grace given to them to choose the good, to respond to God? Isn't the point of Calvinism that the reprobate is totally dead, totally unable to respond unless God elects the person? And if God does do so, the election is unconditional and irresistable? So in what sense is the reprobate "rejecting" God's mercy in order to deserve hell?

SD