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1 | Is there middle ground? | Romans | Hank | 21868 | ||
Ed B, are you as curious as I am about what Christians ranted and raved about before Calvinism and Arminianism came along? Things must have been calm in those days of yore when someone could be merely a Christian without having to put on a second label to indentify what kind of Christian he was...... The way this forum has turned, if the C.vs.A issue were banned from it (pleasant thought!), some of the users might just as well log out and go fishing. There wouldn't be anything left that would likely interest them...... I speak for myself, but there may be others who are tuned in to my frequency, that I am fed up to the gills with this incessant debate about Calvinism and Arminianism and, as you truly say, Ed, it has gone on for centuries and solved nothing.....and I submit that this forum is not likely to settle the issue either. So what's the point of debating, day after dreary day, a subject that has been kicked around so much already that it thinks it's a football. It's time to call time out........ Now I'm keenly aware that debating points of High Theology may have its place somewhere and may have its purpose somehow. What I'm not aware of is any single instance wherein a debate on High Theology actually led anyone to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ or lent to any Christian much real help and encouragement in his daily challenge to walk in the path of righteousness. I've yet to find that the effectiveness of one's witness for Christ hinges on whether he embraces either Calvinism or Arminianism. Perhaps the real witness is too busy witnessing that he has little enough time to think very much about either of them. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Is there middle ground? | Romans | EdB | 21876 | ||
Hank Absolutely I also wonder about it. I think the problem is we as human love to argue. Or should I say we love to talk, and arguing gives us a opportunity. The issue of Calvinism and Arminianism is one really a problem of semantics and a refusal to look at the other sides point of view. As I have said many times there is enough evidence to support either sides case within scripture, there is enough rebuttal to either sides case also in scripture to tell us we have proof texted a contradiction. If we would walk away from the proof text, the predefined ideas, the biases and took a fresh look at scripture we would see salvation, sovereignty of God, election, free will, and the all these other terms we love to overuse to prove our point really have different and much further reaching meanings than a 5 point tulip or a 5 statement discourse. EdB |
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