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To: kevao

Perhaps mostly.

However, I think it depends on the degree and type of Calvinism.

Scripture is BOTH/AND

in terms of predesitnation vs free will.

Folks who have a psychodynamic/emotional incapacity to handle that kind of tension

INSIST on shoving God and theology into a ONE OR THE OTHER “TIDY LITTLE BOX.”

Scripture does NOT do that. God has HIS REASONS for The Bible maintaining that tension between the two. We may be troubled by such a tension and frustrated, troubled and annoyed by it. But that’s our problem, NOT God’s.


307 posted on 03/02/2011 8:17:53 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix

Well, you and I (hopefully) don’t shove God into that tidy little box. But as a bloodied veteran of some of those infamous Calvinism/Arminianism/No-Free-Will/Free-Will debates, I can say that we are in a minority, and that most of the Calvinists I’ve interacted with on FR would be simply horrified by Jesus saying, “I did not prepare [Hell] for men.”

I have my own reasons for doubting the veracity of this prophetic vision. But there is no getting around that fact that, if it were true, then Jesus’ statement that He did not prepare the Lake of Fire for men would be a total refutation of the kind of predestination held by Calvinists.

I would be interested to hear from some of the more hard-core Calvinists. On the other hand, I’m not sure I’m up for another one of those endless Free-Will/No-Free-Will debates. It’s already been a long week....


309 posted on 03/02/2011 8:57:54 PM PST by kevao (I)
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