Sunday, April 23, 2006

Theology in a nutshell

Arminian: God is willing but unable to save everyone.

Calvinist: God is able but unwilling to save everyone.

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  1. So He's either powerless or unloving?

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  2. Either way, he's irrelevant.

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  3. Kinda makes atheism appealing, now doesn't it?

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  4. John: Only if you think somewhat fallacious overgeneralizations are a good thing.

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  5. Rather, he either fails to save whom he wills, or he saves fully whom he wills. He separates his sheep from the goats, but he welcomes in his sheep by lavishing upon them love that they do not deserve.

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  6. Well said evanmay! Well said.

    1Co 2:14
    But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

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  7. Either powerless or unloving?

    To the contrary, God is omnipotent in his redemptive love for the elect, and omnipotent in his just judgment of the reprobate.

    And it's quite relevant whether God is your Redeemer or your Judge.

    As to whether this makes atheism appealing, in atheism, everyone is consigned to oblivion.

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  8. "in atheism, everyone is consigned to oblivion... and I don't like that, so I'll invent a god to make me feel better."

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  9. Hi Ted,

    Maybe you're a little dull, but if you scroll up a ways you'll notice that I was answering Loftus on his own grounds.

    So one could just as well say that since Loftus doesn't like the God of Calvinism, he'll invent a secular worldview to make him feel better."

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