[Dr. Eckleburg]

I thought my "Godfather" reply was "humorous," too. It must be the sun. I'll do better.

The internet is so amazing. Every day I get lost in its vast accessability.

A wonderful site I came across this morning is...

http://www.bloomingtonrpchurch.org/refdocpre/index.html

Listed on the church's website is Boettner's "Reformed Doctrine of Predestination" broken down into chapters.

It makes for wonderful reading; very clarifying and edifying on a hot summer afternoon.

After all, what is there to do in New Jersey but wish you were back home?

[xzins]

right now i'm fast into trying to repair their computer. It shuts down on its own with a 60 second warning....and some blurb about rpc (remote procedure call)

I think it's the current worm.

I tried updating their AV software and it'll get near the end of installing and I get a "rolling back" indicator on the message bar and everything disappears.

Gosh, I wish I was a computer geek.

[connectthedots]

Calvin, the brilliant and systematic theologian of the Reformation, put the matter thus: "Predestination we call the eternal decree of God, by which He has determined in Himself, what He would have to become of every individual of mankind. For they are not all created with a similar destiny; but eternal life is foreordained for some and eternal death for others. Every man, therefore, being created for one or the other of these ends, we say he is predestinated either to life or to death."

Not what I would call a characteristic of a loving and just God.