[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Your #61: I think you just have to say it doesn't fit the standard definition of what it means to be Christian. If you had a "Christianoid spin-offs" category — or Christianoid cults — then maybe.... Do you Calvinists realize that you are the only ones posting in this negative way? You are showing everyone your true colors! 107 posted on 3/27/02 9:01 PM Pacific by White Mountain

Okay, so what you are telling me is -- in the post-modern age of ECT ecumenicism, Calvinists are the last true Defenders of Biblical Orthodoxy.

Yo, homey, we're cool with that.

We have borne this particular cross before.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. (Romans 11: 3-5)

Heretics try to pervert and subvert Biblical Orthodoxy....
....Calvinists rise to defend it.

As it has always been, so it shall ever be.

James Anthony Froude has been recognized as one of England's most able historians and men of letters. For a number of years he was professor of History at Oxford, England's greatest university. While he accepted another system for himself, and while his writings are such that he is often spoken of as an opponent of Calvinism, he was free from prejudice, and the ignorant attacks upon Calvinism which have been so common in recent years aroused in him the learned scholar's just impatience.

"I am going to ask you," says Froude, "to consider how it came to pass that if Calvinism is indeed the hard and unreasonable creed which modern enlightenment declares it to be, it has possessed such singular attractions in past times for some of the greatest men that ever lived; and how — being as we are told, fatal to morality, because it denies free will — the first symptom of its operation, wherever it established itself, was to obliterate the distinction between sins and crimes, and to make the moral law the rule of life for States as well as persons. I shall ask you, again, why, if it be a creed of intellectual servitude, it was able to inspire and sustain the bravest efforts ever made by man to break the yoke of unjust authority. When all else has failed, — when patriotism has covered its face and human courage has broken down, — when intellect has yielded, as Gibbon says, 'with a smile or a sigh,' content to philosophize in the closet, and abroad worship with the vulgar, — when emotion, and sentiment, and tender imaginative piety have become the handmaids of superstition, and have dreamt themselves into forgetfulness that there is any difference between lies and truth, — the slavish form of belief called Calvinism, in one or other of its many forms, has borne ever an inflexible front to illusion and mendacity, and has preferred rather to be ground to powder like flint than to bend before violence or melt under enervating temptation."

The song remains the same.

[RnMomof7]

Yo, homey, we're cool with that.,

yes we is

This broken board is giving me fits so I ask again if they call themselves Jews will that make them Jews...question mark does not work *grin*..but it is a vaid question...the creed has always been the marker of a Christian,you remember that ange

[White Mountain]

Your #110: Okay, so what you are telling me is ... Calvinists are the last true Defenders of Biblical Orthodoxy.

It should be perfectly obvious to anyone that I am not telling you that. This is the spin you are pleased to put on it.