To: drstevej; OrthodoxPresbyterian; CCWoody; Wrigley; Gamecock; Jean Chauvin; jboot; AZhardliner; ...
GRPL Ping
2 posted on
12/02/2013 11:52:29 AM PST by
Gamecock
(If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
To: Gamecock
My friend Michael Horton often comments on the phenomenon of cage-stage Calvinism, that strange malady that seems to afflict so many people who have just seen the truth of the Reformed doctrines of grace. Weve all known one of these cage-stage Calvinists. Many of us were even one of them when we were first convinced of Gods sovereignty in salvation. Cage-stage Calvinists are identifiable by their insistence on turning every discussion into an argument for limited atonement or for making it their personal mission to ensure everyone they know hearsoften quite loudlythe truths of divine election. Now, having a zeal for the truth is always commendable. But a zeal for the truth that manifests itself in obnoxiousness wont convince anyone of the biblical truth of Reformed theology. As many of us can attest from personal experience, it will actually push them away.
Thanks for the ping, Gamecock. But where's that exegesis of Romans 9 that we were expecting?
7 posted on
12/02/2013 12:16:48 PM PST by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: Gamecock
"in love He predestined us to adoption as sons ..." Ephesians 1.
Folks need to know God did it out of Love, not because of anything we did or because of anything we would do, but out of His sheer love.
16 posted on
12/02/2013 3:41:05 PM PST by
sr4402
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