To: D-fendr
>Fatalism, determinism and ‘salvation from God’.That may be your perception.
To Calvinists, it is perceived as Knowing where you're going. Knowing why. and Living in accordance to this knowledge.
Personally I have all my faith in a Jewish Carpenter.
24 posted on
10/30/2011 3:30:43 AM PDT by
rawcatslyentist
(It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
To: rawcatslyentist; D-fendr
I have all my faith in a Jewish Carpenter. and yet, technically, since Calvinism does not believe in free-will and that everything is predestined, shouldn't it technically read that you were predestined to have this pre-programmed faith in a Jewish Carpenter? Or, if later you change, then you were pre-destined and pre-programmed to do so?
27 posted on
10/30/2011 5:41:21 AM PDT by
Cronos
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
To: rawcatslyentist
I admire your faith and in no means judge any individual Calvinist. I disagree with their theology and, particularly, the view of God that results. My questions are meant to be generic about the theology.
A question
Knowing where you're going:
Can you (Calvinists) be wrong?
36 posted on
10/30/2011 11:25:28 AM PDT by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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