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In my first reading of your post I must say I agree 100%. I believe that xzins will agree as well, as we have been advocating that position for some time. Indeed it is a principle premise of the Knights of the Eternal Time Table that God knows everything that will happen and thus everything is predestined to happen exactly as God has always known that it will.

If you can just get yourself kicked out of the GRPL, you would likely be eligible for a commission in the Knights of the Eternal Time Table. :-)

Merry Christmas.

If you can just get yourself kicked out of the GRPL, you would likely be eligible for a commission in the Knights of the Eternal Time Table. :-)

Tempting though the offer might seem, I must decline. I am still a firmly rooted Calvinist, and ever shall be.

Merry Christmas

But Marlowe,

You failed to mention to nobdysfool that you are working under a different understanding/definition of "predestined" and "ordained" than he is.

Furthermore, with your silly speculative notion of God's relation to time, you are also working under a different understanding/definition of God's foreknowledge than nobdysfool.

You have fabricated a concept where God can change his mind and what he knows to be true because, as you say, God is -right this very moment- pre-ordianing all things from before the foundation of the world.

Your science fiction concoction is simply a re-working of Openness Theology.

Since you have a completely different understanding of "predestine", "ordain" and God's relationship to time than nobdysfool, you do NOT "agree 100%".

It is most common for people who hold aberrant theologies to redefine how they understand common/orthodox theological concepts for the explicit purpose of "sounding" orthodox -all the while keeping secret just how it is that they understand/define these concepts.

2 Peter 2
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

Jean

In my first reading of your post I must say I agree 100%.

I've read it twice now and can say the same. But the beef still exists, which to me is a beef that creates way too much heat. And as Woody calls me, I'll continue to be: aintgonnabecalvinist.

I believe that xzins will agree as well, as we have been advocating that position for some time. Indeed it is a principle premise of the Knights of the Eternal Time Table that God knows everything that will happen and thus everything is predestined to happen exactly as God has always known that it will.

Indeed.