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***You might be a Calvinist if you can't tell the difference between working towards a goal, and presuming that goal has already been accomplished.*** ~ dangus

You might be an Arminian if....

1. You think that working towards a goal that is already accomplished is somehow a waste of time.

2. You think that salvation is a free offer you just need to accept but you still need to work real hard to keep it cause if you don't watch out Satan is by the road roaring and waiting to devour you.

3. You think that you jumped into Jesus hands so you are safe, but you could still jump out if you wanted to any time you wanted to and choose to die.

4. You think that salvation is like a boat ride, where you freely got onto the boat for Zion, but you can jump out into the shark infested waters any time you want on the journey there and still wade out to your doom from the shores of Zion after you have reached Paradise.

5. You think that an eternity in Parasise with the Lord would be an hell hole of a prison without the free will to reject Him any time you want.

6. You think that if Jesus has given a command which man can no longer perform then He is being a big tease, even though Jesus commanded a man with a withered hand to streatch it out, something that was obviously beyond the man's natural ability to do.

Forget it... You are just intellectually or emotionally incapable of reading a sentence without loading it up with all sorts of nonsense that isn't there. Life is one big straw-man fallacy to you, isn't it? It's like you can't ever read an argument without first translating it into an argument you have a ready-made response to. You're completely incapable of perceiving any novel thought or idea. You are so blind that you have no idea that you ARE blind, because you've never seen light. And I realize now that I am foolish to even waste time trying to communicate with you.

And you will read that and say to yourself, "See! I did my part! I proclaimed the truth and he rejected it!" and I will become to you just one more example of someone rejecting Christ, proving to yourself that there are just some people who are predestined to reject your "truth." And you won't even know that I accept Christ and his cross and his love and his discipline and his warnings not to take his love for granted and his reproach and his healing and his salvation and his church.