But then, despite all this theology stuff, Baptist, Catholic, double-damn predestin-pedestrian, Calvinist, Non-Calvinist, whatever, we still have the same core convictions, the same Good News! Which is:
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I guess we’ll get into that BASIC thing (Brothers And Sisters In Christ) when we’re all in the DHS prisons together in adjoining cells. Staring around in bewilderment saying, “Whoa. What happened?”
I think I tried to make that point in number 20. Maybe not so well stated as in mentioning the DHS prisons.
Yes...could not help but to have noticed that when the Tea Party announced a protest at IRS headquarters in downtown St. Louis, MO...the DHS showed up with about as many agents as there were protestors.
BTW...the protestors were mostly sixty years old or older...gramps and grandmas protesting against the IRS because of the scandal...or, I mean “controversy”...see, it’s only a “scandal” if Republicans do it...ask CNN.
Yeah...the DHS types showed up with an armored vehicle. Against a couple dozen people in their sixties. I’m not kidding.
“Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world...” to “Jesus loves some of the little children, but not all of the children of the world.” That is Calvinism. And it seems to go hand in hand with something called Lordship salvation wherein others, like Paul Washer, judge whether you really have made Jesus your Lord by your conduct, and if you are not up to Paul Washer’s specs, you are probably not getting in. Funny, in that everyone that believes in Calvinism just so happens to be part of the Elect. With all the billions of people in the world, aren’t the odds that at least one person who believes in predestination and the Elect chosen only to salvation were on the outside of that inner circle? Ya gotta think at least one person would say “yeah, I believe in Calvinism, but somehow I did not make the cut. Its really a shame, but what are you gonna do?”I have also heard that some churches try to teach calvinism by dumping a bunch of white (balls, socks, whatever) with one or two red ones, and teach young children, that the red ones represent those that God did not elect unto salvation. I think that necessarily damns infants who were not part of the elect to hell and damnation, demon babies. Its craziness that distracts people from God’s Word. “For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believeth in Him, shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life.” Plainly, God loves the world, not just the Elect, He gave His Son for the World, and “whosoever” that believes in Him shall be saved. Simple enough. Trying to twist that into something else is risking God’s wrath for preaching a false gospel.
“I guess we’ll get into that BASIC thing (Brothers And Sisters In Christ) when we’re all in the DHS prisons together in adjoining cells. Staring around in bewilderment saying, “Whoa. What happened?”
I agree with your sentiment 100%, with one small caveat. I am always standing in slack jawed amazement at people who can accept on any level being incarcerated in a DHS prison (presumably just for being a normal American)
Aside from the sole exception of awakening in captivity after having been knocked senseless by a wound or explosion like a Japanese soldier on Tarawa; a red blooded American should die in a pile of brass rifle casings, with a fixed bayonet, and after having made it a very bitter and sad day for the Nazis that came for them.
No prisons in our future.
And any DHS prison in an avoidable Amerofacist future had better review the story of the raid on Cabanatuan.
Jesus loves you, unconditionally; but he hates your sin and was willing to die to cleanse you of it.