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To: marshmallow
authored an 80-page booklet in 2000 titled Trouble with the TULIP*: A Closer Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism.

Worth pointing out that the so-called "Five points 'o Calvinism!" come from the five heads of doctrine in the Canons of the Synod of Dordt in 1619, a full century after Brother Martin kicked over the apple cart. The synod was called to deal with errant teaching ("Arminianism") that had arisen in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, and the document it produced was a narrowly focused polemical document.

All of which is to say, there's more to "Calvinism!" than 5 caricatured points about soteriology.

Happy Reformation Sunday, y'all............

fröhliche!

*(TULIP isn't an acronym that works anywhere but English, and wasn't used until sometime early in the 20th century. Noone has quite tracked down where it was first used.)

28 posted on 10/30/2011 5:41:45 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: Lee N. Field
All of which is to say, there's more to "Calvinism!" than 5 caricatured points about soteriology.

One would never know that by listening to most of the Calvinists on FR.

32 posted on 10/30/2011 8:28:57 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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