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1 | Debate Arminian/Calvinist views? | 2 Pet 3:9 | Hank | 81310 | ||
I like the line from a song in "The Sound of Music": "me, a name I call myself." The forum's "justme" has captured that one however, and it's a superb user ID. I like the name "justme" and I like the book title "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis for much the same reasons. There's a certain plainness and lack of pretense about these names. When I read user names that seem to be trying to make a denominational or doctrinal statement, I tend to wince, square my jaw, and view what they have to say with a jaundiced eye. Should I read user names like R.Minian, Cal-Vin, KJ Only, Ethel Mormon, J.Witness, or SavedbyWater, my guard would go up and I would take with several grains of salt whatever they opined on. Likely as not I'd be able to make a fairly well educated guess about what they were likely to expound on and the conclusions they reasonably could be expected to reach. Thus armed with this advance warning, I should feel somewhat cheated for, as with a good mystery tale, it's much less interesting when one pretty well knows the outcome in advance!.... I join CDBJ in ruing the day when it no longer means much to call oneself a Christian without the use of modifiers. One is pressed in today's world to accept one label or another, and if he refuses to do so, along will come the label makers and slap one on him anyway. There are those who hold that if one isn't a Calvinist he is an Arminian by default. This is wrong. It is, in fact, both wrong and ridiculous. What were Christians called in Antioch? Were they divided into two camps and called pre-Calvinists and pre-Arminians? Calvinists think they are right. Arminians think they are right. Can two opposing views, both of whom claim scriptural foundation in support of their views, be right in all doctrinal matters? No, they cannot both be right, but it is possible that they can be wrong in certain points of doctrine. Is it possible to be a Christian, a child of the King, to be regenerated and on one's way to heaven, without subscribing in toto to either Calvinism, Arminianism or any other "ism" that happens to pop up? In my 54 years as a Christian I have come to believe that it certainly is. Not only possible, but rather desirable in my view. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Debate Arminian/Calvinist views? | 2 Pet 3:9 | Radioman2 | 81311 | ||
"He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world..." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hank: You write: "One is pressed in today's world to accept one label or another, and if he refuses to do so, along will come the label makers and slap one on him anyway." How very true! If I am an advocate of neither Calvinism nor Arminianism, then what do I believe? I believe: NASB Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. AMPLIFIED Ephesians 1:4 Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. NASB 2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. Radioman2 |
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