Why Calvin Is Cool; An Infomercial for Calvinism

The Internet Monk ^ | Michael Spencer

[Oztrich Boy]

Too hyper

Hobbes is cooler

[Celtman]

I think if you studied the similarities between Muhammad ibn Wahhab and Jean Cauvin you would be surprised.

      OK, let's see ... both were haman ... both were males ... and that seems to be it ... yes, it is surprising that a human would establish Whahhabism and expect other human beings to follow him.

      Another study suggestion: A Defense of Calvinism, by Charles Spurgeon.

[blue-duncan]

"Calvinism is warmly"

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[A.J.Armitage]

I must riot now!

EEEEeeegharaaaaAAH!

[JWinNC]

soteriology = the theology of salvation

There is an "ology" for just about every theological subject... the study of a specialized area.

Arminians = those who follow a line of Soteriological thinking as started by the theologian Jacobus Arminius. The five key points of this thinking, called The Articles of the Remonstrance:

(1) The Fall left man spiritually very sick but not in a state of total incapacity. He still has some freedom to good. His will is not entirely enslaved to a sinful nature. He needs only God's assistance in his coming to conversion. In this he brings his own faith and his own willingness.

(2) Accordingly, Election is based upon foreknowledge. God foresees who will be willingly disposed and who Will refuse, and elects those whom He knows will assent. If some oversimplification is permitted it might be said that Arminians held that God's foreknowledge related to those who would seek salvation. In the Lutheran system this foreknowledge related to those who would not resist God's call. In the Methodist system God's foreknowledge related to these who He knew would persevere.

(3) Christ died for all men, for the salvation of all men was God's original plan. It is not God's will that any should perish but, having been given freedom, man is able to accept or reject salvation and only a few are saved. (The fourth point was joined to this third point, though these two points are generally set forth as two separate articles.)

(4) Man is entirely free to resist the grace of God.

(5) Even after yielding to God and accepting the Lord as Savior, a man may so resist the influence of the Holy Spirit thereafter in his life that he becomes a castaway, a reprobate, disapproved, "turning again to his former wallowing," and so in the end losing his salvation.

(above clipped from here: http://custance.org/old/grace/ch5.html )

Some, myself included, consider Arminianism to be Biblically unsound.

Peace,
JWinNC

[P-Marlowe]

"Calvinism is warmly" Isn't that an oxymoron?

That depends.

I suppose this would be an inappropriate time to play the Sevetus card, eh?

[blue-duncan]

"I suppose this would be an inappropriate time to play the Sevetus card, eh?"

You should have played it earlier. It's late here and I have had to save up some of today's energy for tomorrows problems. How have you been?

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

I suppose this would be an inappropriate time to play the Sevetus card, eh?

Only if you remembered to bring the Marshmellows this time....

Hungerily,

CDL

[Gamecock]

24.95 at http://www.monergismbooks.com/001DVD.html

The only bad part of the video is in one part D. James Kennedy really needed a glass of water.

[xzins]

Hungerily

????

LOL. Pronounced: hun ger ill lee

Definition: A Magyar Primate.

[fishtank]

bump

[xzins]

Correction:

A hillbilly Magyar Primate.

:>)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[xzins]

Is this our monthly calvinist primer?

[JWinNC]

Hmmm.. this has been (mostly) civil I wonder what happened at #48?

jw

[Religion Moderator]

48 was removed for language only, it was not a personal attack.

[JWinNC]

Thanks, just curious.

[Between the Lines]

Thanks for the ping.