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To: Dutchboy88
""I came to Catholicism from Calvinism." And, obviously understood neither. But, even that is God's management. We are more than happy to hand her over to you folks...keeps her off the streets.

It seems to me such an ugly, ungodly, carnal comment might come from a religious Calvinist, but not from a genuine Christian walking in the Spirit.

43 posted on 11/04/2014 12:00:29 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
"It seems to me such an ugly, ungodly, carnal comment might come from a religious Calvinist, but not from a genuine Christian walking in the Spirit."

Okay, let me restate this. It is indeed a tragedy of epic proportion that she could not hear the true message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the real message of salvation by grace, through faith, that is not earned/worked for/produced by men, but is the free gift given to undeserving sinners, lest anyone boast of creating it. Instead of being one whom God permitted the scales to drop from her eyes, was instead one who sought more self-created righteousness through the cult called the Roman Catholic Church.

It is utterly tragic, but entirely directed by God (Rom. 9) because it, "...does not depend upon the man who wills (chooses) or the man who runs (acts), but on God who has mercy...so then He has mercy on whom He desires and He hardens whom He desires."

Of course, "You will say to me then, 'Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?' On the contrary, who do you think you are, O man, who answers back to God?" She is in His hands and we absolutely hope that He has mercy on her, yet. But, her current statements indicate the scales are still there, never having fallen when she claims to have listened to some of what Calvin said. Evidently, God did not permit her to hear.

68 posted on 11/04/2014 12:34:16 PM PST by Dutchboy88
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