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To: Gamecock

I will go with John Wesley on this subject.

“Answer all [the Calvinists’] objections, as occasion offers, both in public and private. But take care to do this with all possible sweetness both of look and of accent...Make it a matter of constant and earnest prayer, that God would stop the plague.”


3 posted on 08/21/2008 1:54:12 PM PDT by Patrick1
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To: Patrick1
that God would stop the plague

Interesting thought coming from an Arminian.

4 posted on 08/21/2008 1:57:49 PM PDT by Gamecock (The truth of Christianity does not hinge on my personal experience.)
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To: Patrick1

I am a methodist elder and Wesley was wrong to call calvinism a plague. He acknowledged as much in his final reconciliation with George Whitfield.

Wesley and other remonstrants really hadn’t considered the implications of absolute foreknowledge, and arminians still do not. I believe they’ve misunderstood Arminius. Perhaps Arminius misunderstood the implications of absolute foreknowledge.


14 posted on 08/21/2008 2:21:14 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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