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To: Corin Stormhands
No. It is not. Yet I sin anyway. I'm sorry if my attempt to better understand your theology is offensive to you.

At last, an answer! You do not offend me, but I am baffled by the fact that all you do is nit-pick at stuff, in the hopes of tripping someone up. That's the only reason I can see why you do that. It is not debate. It is not a sharing of ideas. As much as you want to understand my theology, I would like to understand why you believe as you do. We can't do that unless we are both engaged in debate over issues, instead of dealing with little booby-trap bombs lobbed in to derail the discussion.

As for your question, God does not will that I sin in the sense that He commands me to sin. Is the fact that I do sin taken into account in His Design? Yes. But the responsibility for my sin is mine, not His.

367 posted on 03/19/2003 9:03:24 AM PST by nobdysfool (Let God be true, and every man a liar....)
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To: nobdysfool; fortheDeclaration
You do not offend me, but I am baffled by the fact that all you do is nit-pick at stuff, in the hopes of tripping someone up.

To the contrary, it is the elements of Calvinism that I stumble over, because they don't fit. That's why I question them.

Take a look around, of the Christians around here, the Calvinists have the strongest (and most prolific) contingency. They say I don't understand Calvinism, when I think I do.

Then they get offended when their explanations don't convince me.

368 posted on 03/19/2003 9:28:14 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (Liberate Iraq. Fumigate France.)
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