You Know,Dr E,every time I see calvin’s picture I see the devil in him.
Here are the fruits from calvin that make up this country.
You’re free to..
Have an abortion,purchase pornography legally,practice homosexuality,have commercials on TV for male enhancement etc... You name it ! And it is getting worse.
When you adopt the view that God planned for the the poor to be poor and God looked with favor and gave grace to people of wealth and success in business ,you can clearly see that the founding fathers of this country would have the audacity to be involved in trading and owning slaves and think that God is going to bless america and its future.
Why would one play God for such a fool!
You’re prayers should be that God has mercy on us for the sin of listening to calvin
“When you adopt the view that God planned for the the poor to be poor”
Do you believe that God planned all of the events in the thief on the cross’ life that led up to his audience with Jesus there?
Do you believe that the thief now believes that the audience was worth his getting caught and punished?
Yes, STA, that is exactly what Islam teaches. This is the kind of belief that justified slavery and probably to this day, in Calvinistic subconscious, justifies slavery. After all, God must have wanted it, otherwise there would have been no slaves ever.
But, they can simply say "now God doesn't want slavery any more" and so we don't approve of it. The moody, angry, always changing God of Calvinism. And the pizza parlor bomber in Israel says "God wants me to kill these infindels..." and feel perfectly "justified" and "honored" to do so. Same mindset, opposite team.