[jo kus]

My side is the one who harps on God's absolute sovereignty. It is we who say that God controls everything and gets whatever He wants whenever He wants it, and tramples over whatever we want if it stands in His way. Does that sound like my buddy next door? To the contrary, it is you who say that we cooperate with God, just like good neighbor buddies do. :)

!!! Not everyone on your "side" says that. You have forgotten that there are as many ideas about God in the Protestant camp as their are heads (...paraphase of Luther, discovering the Pandora Box he had opened with Sola Scriptura)

Regards

[Forest Keeper]

!!! Not everyone on your "side" says [he agrees with your idea of God's absolute sovereignty]. You have forgotten that there are as many ideas about God in the Protestant camp as their are heads (...paraphrase of Luther, discovering the Pandora Box he had opened with Sola Scriptura)

In this case, when I said "my side", I was referring to Calvinists of my ilk whom you have grown to know and love over these many threads. :) I fully acknowledge that there are good people who are Protestants and don't share my views about soteriology. However, I was responding to a post addressed to me, so I thought it was OK to speak for the extremely consistent views of the MANY Reformers like me on this forum. :)

BTW, while there are certainly some different views about God among Protestants, just as there are among Catholics and the Orthodox, I am not aware of any wide diversity about the concept of Sola Scriptura. People may apply it differently, but then, hundreds of millions of followers of your faith also apply Church teachings very differently. All three of us have our respective ideas about what is correct concerning our faiths, and the fact remains that so many of our respective brethren in faith disregard what we agree with and do something else instead.