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1 | Is God somehow responsible? | Rom 1:20 | Emmaus | 70321 | ||
Tim, Thank you for your response. I think that man makes a free choice, but that is made possible by an actual rather than sanctifying grace. Actual grace being a grace given for a specific purpose, but not necessarily sanctifying, such as the gift given to Balaam to prophesie. And of course where I come from we hold justifying grace and sanctifying grace to be the same and to be infused(intrinsic) as well as forensic(extrinsic). It just seems to me that when grace is extrinsic there is a certain logic that leads to the even the most extreme Calvinist position as found in Barth. In my neck of the wood we hold that God predestines (but not to damnation)and man makes a truly free choice, but that how those two actually interact is a mystery. There seems to be something about the Calvinist position that disdains the mystery and has to explain everything in this context by the logic of man. Which is not to say they do not acknowledge the mystery of God Himself, but that they seem phobic about admitting any mystery in the this particular(predestination / free will)context. What is lacking in the Protestant mileu is an authoritative Church voice to say "Enough already! It's a mystery!" Would you guys like to borrow a Pope of a Council? :-) Emmaus |
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2 | Is God somehow responsible? | Rom 1:20 | Morant61 | 70325 | ||
Greetings Emmaus! :) We could elect a Forum Pope! :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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3 | Is God somehow responsible? | Rom 1:20 | CDBJ | 70334 | ||
Tim, now you are even getting my interest up with that statement. We could elect a Forum Pope! I more or less stay out of the A and C debate as much as possible because neither one has ever been proven, or this debate wouldn’t even be going on. The idea of a Forum Pope might work though and just think of all the money the forum could make charging for each post? Do you think though that after a while we would quit using the Bible as our source of information and guide and depend on him for truth and guidance: we could call it excaforum. |
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