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To: Polycarp; pseudo-justin; saradippity; Aquinasfan; Catholicguy

Top 10 Ways to Irritate a Calvinist



10. Say to him that God doesn't have a sense of humor because He already knows all the punchlines.

9. Ask him how God can delight in anything, seeing that He's already been there and done that.

8. Tell him that God is limited because only man can know the experience of surprise.

7. Suggest that there is no Trinity because The Holy Spirit can be resisted while the Father is sovereign.

6. Argue that missionaries are, by their definition, unbelievers.

5. Agree with them that it IS the will of God that any should be lost.

4. Depict God as bored, because he not only has already read the book, he probably wrote it Himself.

3. Affirm that there is no dualism in man - that he is the same in flesh, soul, and spirit.

2. Argue that God is bound by time since He started His creation "in the beginning."

1. Suggest that Jesus probably put his pants on one leg at a time.



31 posted on 01/08/2003 6:34:20 PM PST by cebadams
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To: cebadams; OrthodoxPresbyterian; Jerry_M; the_doc; CCWoody; Matchett-PI; JesseShurun; gdebrae; ...
1. Suggest that Jesus probably put his pants on one leg at a time.

Jesus didnt wear pants

Your pathetic attempt at humor does nothing except to show you have no respect for God. You are a fine example of unregenerate man.

"The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." It would be scripturally false to leave out the second phrase, "and to enjoy Him forever." The men who formulated this showed great wisdom and insight is saying, "and to enjoy Him forever." Nevertheless, the first phrase is the first phrase: "The chief end of man is to glorify God." And in Christianity we have a non-determined God who did not need to create because there was love and communication within the Trinity, and yet having been created, we as men can glorify God. If we fail to emphasize that we can glorify God, we raise the question of whether men are significant at all. We begin to lose our humanity as soon as we begin to lose the emphasis that what we do makes a difference. We can glorify God, and both the Old and New Testament say that we can even make God sad. That is tremendous."

Francis A. Schaeffer

56 posted on 01/09/2003 8:32:10 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Jhn 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.)
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To: cebadams
To be funny, purported humor has to have a kernel of truth. That top ten list is not funny. Then again it only claims to be a list of irritants.

10. Say to him that God doesn't have a sense of humor because He already knows all the punchlines.

I've seen movies such as, "Lost in America", and "The In-Laws" countless times. I know the words by heart, and yet I still laugh. Why is that? Is God any different in this respect? If you don't think God has a sense of humor, read the O.T. sometime.

Cordially,

68 posted on 01/09/2003 12:46:50 PM PST by Diamond
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To: cebadams
lol.
71 posted on 01/09/2003 1:39:44 PM PST by WriteOn
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