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To: AlaninSA
Calvinism...predestination...so sad to see that people believe that faith is a choice not left to them. If that were true, what point would there be in evangelizing the world? All of the converts would be “pre-converted.”

Congratulations. You have a firm mastery of a distorted charicature of Calvinism that bears little resemblence to what the Reformed faith actually believes and teaches.

Please accept this complimentary participation gift:

Please, Calvinism is for the weak-minded.

Whereas uninformed inflammatory comments bely an incredible deftness when it comes to civil conversation.

128 posted on 05/27/2007 9:56:38 PM PDT by Frumanchu (Jerry Falwell: Now a Calvinist in Glory)
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To: Frumanchu

Seems to be a reasonable point to me. If everyone is already pre-elected, why evanglize? Please explain why it is wrong. Thanks.


129 posted on 05/27/2007 10:01:31 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Frumanchu

Many Calvinists that I know are intellectually rigorous in their theology and deeply sincere in their faith. I have found, however, that many of them have simply not been exposed to catholic (Orthodox, Roman Catholic or Anglo-Catholic) theology but instead have been fed only a caricature of the same. I have seen a number of them move away from reformed theology several years after their reading lists have been expanded. I expect the same will occur for a subset of the reformed theology gang on FR who sincerely debate on these threads.


135 posted on 05/27/2007 10:53:27 PM PDT by Huber (And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5)
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