What confuses me is that they talk of sinners as if they have a choice in sin. Even more befuddling is when they begin to speak of the "guilt" for the sin they had no choice to reject. With such mindset, Judas becomes an "obedient servant" of God, and we begin to see parallels with Gnosticism here.
I promised Blogger to leave him the floor, but posting to you doesn't count.. I hope. Or maybe I can just provide some flamebait anyway.
What occurred to me tonight is that if you are alone with Scripture, truly sola and have no Church to trust for what is the True Teaching - "trust no man.." etc.. then either you become the best lawyer, c.f. Calvin, the best charismatic orator, c.f., Benny Hinn, or what? Why is your contradictory interpretation any more true than the next guy flying sola? And why would anyone else's be either?
There's no foundation under you, or a multiplicity of foundations, none with any more claim to Truth than the other.
Do you compare experiences of the Holy Spirit then? No, no, experiential, mysticism? That's verbotten also.
There's no where to go from here and I see a short drop to the worldview of a deterministic crapshoot in a meaningless game.
I'm sure the Protestants will be all over me for this one, but maybe I'll just hide out tomorrow.
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