***I don’t know much about Calvinism so this is really a learning piece for me.***
If you used this as a “learning piece” you still don’t know much about Calvinism.
Hit piece on Calvinists.
So much for *There’s no Protestant bashing on FR*.
These threads of ‘blogs’ are a relatively poor excuse about learning ‘theology’, in my humble opinion. These are all the interpretations of man interpreting man, with a ‘necessary’ reference to Scripture to bolster whatever argument is being made.
Salvation, you might remember once that I cited in a thread that my dad, confronted by a ‘learned pastor’ in Des Moines who said that he was the man who the other pastors in that city came to when they had a question about what the Bible said. My dad’s response was that he, my dad, was the man, when he had a question about what the Bible said, he, my dad went to the Holy Spirit for answers.
I am more and more becoming a ‘chip off the old block’ so to speak, at my nearly 4 score years I find that works better for me than all the theological discussions/dissertations in the world.
I might say though, that Luther and Calvin were not much better than the Inquisitor’s when it came to dealing with those with whom they were in theological disagreement. Consider the Anabaptists, tied to a long pole and dunked in the river...and some of those so dunked drowned. My understanding is that both Luther and Calvin resorted to this...or their followers did.