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To: BenLurkin
This should be in Breaking News

Only if it's predestined to be in Breaking News....

3 posted on 08/14/2015 7:16:21 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao
LOL! You must favor the Arminian side, as do I.

I thought this was nasty little kicker:

The Arminian side, in its more extreme form, says that, in order to give human beings a true choice, God cannot see the future.

There are far more extremists among the Calvinists than among the Arminian side, the typical logical explanation I most commonly hear from the Arminian side, is that even if God (theoretically) cannot see the future, he knows us so well that for all practical purposes, he can.

That makes a far more reasonable thesis than the Calvinist thesis on predestination.

Jacobus Arminius was also a genuinely nice man who worked to persuade people to his point of view through gentleness and reason, unlike John Calvin who had his theological opponents beheaded or burned at the stake when he had the power to do so.

13 posted on 08/14/2015 7:33:55 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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