[Dr. Eckleburg]

I agree with Reformed theology, and believe it to be the most accurate, but there are a lot of warts there - and the resulting schism is something to be lamented. It may have been necessary, but if so, it is like chemotherapy - a radical treatment that is in fact poisonous itself.

I couldn't disagree more.

It may have been necessary, but if so...

"If so" ?!?

To compare the Reformation to flesh-destroying chemotherapy is vile. Do you know anything of the Counter Reformation, Jude? You mimic it pretty precisely.

If one believes in a sovereign God, then one realizes all who come to faith are led exclusively by His will alone.

You nor I cannot increase or decrease the number of saved men and women by even one digit. So don't lament what you have no control over. Lament for those who are numbered among the elect, and haven't heard the Good News yet.

But rest assured. They will.

[Campion]

Lament for those who are numbered among the elect, and haven't heard the Good News yet. ... But rest assured. They will.

Then why are you lamenting over them?

[Campion]

To compare the Reformation to flesh-destroying chemotherapy is vile.

You're right, of course. Chemotherapy is intended to save the patient. The Reformation, by the time it had progressed past its infancy, was intended to kill the patient.

[HarleyD]

Just so there is no mistake I would agree with you Dr. E. I would like to know which parts of the Westminster Confession Jude finds to be "poisonous" contrasting those doctrines to the appropriate Catholic doctrines that is "lamented" as lost.