[Ward Smythe]

I know that you have heard the gospel. The tomb is empty. The living God is risen and holds the keys of Hades and Death. Are you inscribed into the palms of His hands?

Stuart,

Woody and I disagree on many things in our interpretations. But here we speak as one. What Christianity has that no other religion or approach to God has is the evidence of the empty tomb. Jesus is Lord, and he is the one way to the Father.

Don't let our family squabbles keep you from seeing that. We are passionate in our beliefs because Christ has radically changed us. In our human natures we may violently disagree. But Christ is our bond and we all long for the day when we will be with Him forever.

Ward

[stuartcr]

I too feel that God is why I am the way I am.
I cannot accept an empty tomb, thousands of years ago, as proof of resurrection.
Why do you squabble?

[SKempis]

"In our human natures we may violently disagree. But Christ is our bond and we all long for the day when we will be with Him forever."

While your motives are commendable, I have an honest question.

How can we worship the same God if we don't agree on who He is.

For there is a critical difference between a God who
a) allows children to be born whom He has willed to a life without His Grace and an afterlife of Hell as their punishmet for His choice, or
b) allows each child to be born in the hope that they will accept His offer of grace to all men.

If He truly is the former, then He is an utterly different being than the God non-Calvinists love and worship. I personally consider the attributes given Him by Calvinists to be an insult to Him.