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To: the_conscience

Yes, the Calvinist is arrogant in his humility. Kinda reminds me of the lines from Weird Al Yankovic’s Amish Paradise:

Think you’re really humble? Think you’re pure in heart?
Well I know that I’m a million times as humble as thou art.

Calvin also got it wrong interpreting bondservant or indentured servant versus involuntary slave. Even Saint Paul says explicitly that it is possible to lose his own salvation, which then presupposes that that condition applies to all humanity. I suppose that this would mean that the predestination crowd are up the creek without a Calvin. If they actually paid attention to all of Scripture and not just selected snippet of Paul and the OT.


3,151 posted on 01/14/2010 8:12:04 PM PST by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

I agree with Paul that I am a slave of God.

“This is a letter from Paul, the slave of God and the envoy of Jesus Christ, whose task it is to awaken faith in God’s chosen ones, and to equip them with a fuller knowledge of that truth, which enables a man to live a really religious life”


3,156 posted on 01/14/2010 8:44:10 PM PST by the_conscience (True Americans do not insist on politically correct speech codes.)
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To: MarkBsnr
Think you’re really humble? Think you’re pure in heart? Well I know that I’m a million times as humble as thou art.

I like Mac Davis' version best...

Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble; when yer perfect in ev-ery way...

3,172 posted on 01/14/2010 10:14:52 PM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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