All this time, you've been a crypto-Calvinist!?!?!?!?!
you replied : All this time, you've been a crypto-Calvinist!?!?!?!?!
LOL!!! perish the thought! Catholics do believe in predestination of the elect - that God will inevitably steer His chosen back to Him. However, we do believe that the elect freely have chosen God, as well. We don't believe in fate or that God is a puppet master of men. Also, we do not believe that God actively predestines the reprobate - which says that God creates men so that He can send them to hell, regardless of their actions.
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