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To: fortheDeclaration; ShadowAce; xzins
Now, that is something I can Amen a Calvinist about!

We should add to that the words of Mr. Wesley:

One word more: Is it not the duty of every Arminian Preacher, First, never, in public or in private, to use the word Calvinist as a term of reproach; seeing it is neither better nor worse than calling names? -- a practice no more consistent with good sense or good manners, than it is with Christianity. Secondly. To do all that in him lies to prevent his hearers from doing it, by showing them the sin and folly of it? And is it not equally the duty of every Calvinist Preacher, First, never in public or in private, in preaching or in conversation, to use the word Arminian as a term of reproach? Secondly. To do all that in him lies to prevent his hearers from doing it, by showing them the sin and folly thereof; and that the more earnestly and diligently, if they have been accustomed so to do? perhaps encouraged therein by his own example!

Good counsel. And I'm not preaching that to anyone but Ward.

1,296 posted on 03/04/2002 4:54:44 AM PST by Ward Smythe
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To: Ward Smythe
Civility is a good idea even if we disagree. Didn't Dale Carnegie say something about the impossibility of "winning" an argument?
1,297 posted on 03/04/2002 5:04:59 AM PST by xzins
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