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To: ears_to_hear

Doubtful...

Calvinism...predestination...so sad to see that people believe that faith is a choice not left to them. If that were true, what point would there be in evangelizing the world? All of the converts would be “pre-converted.”

Please, Calvinism is for the weak-minded.


100 posted on 05/27/2007 8:04:13 PM PDT by AlaninSA ("Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden)
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To: AlaninSA; ears_to_hear
weak minded

Actually not. Calvinism was the overwhelming doctrine believed by America's founding fathers.

Let me add, too, that Calvinism has a far more satisfying answer to the problem of evil than does any other doctrinal perspective.

102 posted on 05/27/2007 8:07:29 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: AlaninSA

Some day we will explain calvinism to you, so you can understand what you mock...

It is obvious you do not understand the doctrine, and in a case like that it is always better just to be quiet


108 posted on 05/27/2007 8:14:11 PM PDT by ears_to_hear
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To: AlaninSA
Calvinism...predestination...so sad to see that people believe that faith is a choice not left to them. If that were true, what point would there be in evangelizing the world? All of the converts would be “pre-converted.”

Congratulations. You have a firm mastery of a distorted charicature of Calvinism that bears little resemblence to what the Reformed faith actually believes and teaches.

Please accept this complimentary participation gift:

Please, Calvinism is for the weak-minded.

Whereas uninformed inflammatory comments bely an incredible deftness when it comes to civil conversation.

128 posted on 05/27/2007 9:56:38 PM PDT by Frumanchu (Jerry Falwell: Now a Calvinist in Glory)
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To: AlaninSA; ears_to_hear
Calvinism...predestination...so sad to see that people believe that faith is a choice not left to them.

Incredible. What out-and-out Pelagianism. In the 4th century you would have been branded a heretic and tossed out of the Church. Today you're accepted as one of the crowd. My, how times have changed. I guess this is progress.

134 posted on 05/27/2007 10:50:19 PM PDT by HarleyD
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