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To: Arlis
By the way, Charles Spurgeon boasted that he indeed was a Calvinist while the Baptists in England fought against what was referred to as ultra-Calvinism - the extreme......

It's actually referred to as Hyper-Calvinism; and Spurgeon was no Hyper-Calvinist. He did not believe in predestination as applied to all people. He believed that God desires that all men be saved; and not that God predestined each particular individual to either Heaven or Hell.

31 posted on 10/30/2011 8:26:58 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: SeaHawkFan

My bad. Yes, but I figured most folk here didn’t need and wouldn’t understand the term “Hyper-Calvinism” and wouldn’t be aware of the battles in England that Spurgeon fought.


42 posted on 10/30/2011 7:18:56 PM PDT by Arlis (.)
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