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1 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Hank | 61409 | ||
JRdoc: Quoting your opening statement: "I did not know that Calvinists were not allowed here." Let me ask you where you learned that? Certainly not from any post I've ever entered on this forum in well over a year of active use. If you, a new user, will avail yourself of the Search feature and research Calvinism, you will readily come to the knowledge that hundreds of posts on this subject are in the archives of this forum. I note that you are a Reformed Baptist. Well, I'm a member of the Baptist Church too, Southern Baptist Convention in particular, but I am no Calvinist. I'm a rather prolific writer and poster and assuredly could, if I should feel inclined, make a thousand posts in a row on the topic of my faith and why I think it is right, biblical, and the faith to be espoused and adhered to above all others. There are any number of reasons that I could cite for my not doing this. I will mention only two. The first is that I am not primarily a Baptist, a Southern Baptist or any other kind of Baptist. Neither am I a disciple of Calvinism or any other ism. I am foremost and primarily a Christian. Like C.S.Lewis, I do not sit glued with firm and unmoveable allegiance in any denominational pew. The second reason that I don't actively promote my denominational affiliation is out of concern and respect for the affiliations of other members which are different from mine. On an open forum such as we have here, my sense is that we do harm both to our denomination and to ourselves when we parade our views strictly along doctrinal/denominational lines and when we persist to parade them to the point of being a genuine bore, whatever those views may be and however strongly we may feel about their rightness. I feel that you and I and all others on this forum have a right to participate in it so long as we all of us are mindful of and do not abuse the guidelines for usage that the Lockman Foundation, our host, has established. The goal and aim of this forum, after all, is not to soap box denominational bias but to engage in an exegetical study of the Bible. It is my prayer and fond hope that we can reason together as regenerate believes ought and with an exhibition of love and harmony, lead others to the Fountain at which we, the redeemed in Christ, are by God's grace, allowed to drink freely. I welcome you to the forum and hope to be able to interact with you in singleness of purpose: To grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. --Hank | ||||||
2 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | JRdoc | 61418 | ||
Hank Well, your initial post bothered me somewhat because of its tone. You were doing the criticizing. To someone new like me I did not understand “why.” I could understand some of your concern, but not the tone –the wording. Next, how are we to assert what we believe without theology? Though I may be Reformed Baptist I have several friends in several denominations that are Christians as well. I do not always agree with them, but we do discuss theology and in the discourse I change my approaches and either re-affirm my belief or I change because the argument presented, if it cannot be biblically refuted. They do the same. Thus both grow in some form. How can you have a conversation about any issue in Scripture without “your” theology being involved to some measure—you can’t! I do agree that one must use grace in his speech—posts— and such and since I am new here and have not seen hardly any of the posts, so I can not comment on them. If people are abusing that then Calvinist/Arminian/Dispensationalist/……are wrong and need to apologize to one another. This is biblical (Mat 18). But this is far different than refraining from “any” theological discussion on Reformed or Arminian theology or others “ologies’ and ‘isms’ that I have seen here. I hope we can meet each other and discuss “all” issues of theology in the way that God intended. 2 Tim 4: 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. |
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3 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Hank | 61420 | ||
JRdoc, I quite agree that words from your mouth and from mine will, after all, reflect unavoidably and inescapably what is in our hearts. And what is in our hearts is essentially who we are -- individuals, each with his own unique way of viewing the world and even of viewing things spiritual. So, you're right. Theological concepts -- biases, warts and all -- are so inextricably imbedded within us that we can't talk about things spiritual without revealing them to a greater or lesser degree. But that is not my point. Perhaps I have failed to communicate it clearly. I will attempt to do so now. The problem is not now nor ever has been whether there should be in force a strict prohibition of any and all references to Calvinism, Arminianism or any of the myriad of other "isms" that have come before this panel. The problem is one of quantity not necessarily always of substance. I stand in vigorous opposition to a handful of Calvinists -- or any other group -- whose huge volume of posts play the same tune and play it so loudly and so frequently that the din of their loud trumpets becomes so unbearably deafening -- and they don't seem to give a hoot that the gentle toot of the little flute of others cannot be heard. One final word: Ars gratia artis is a fine motto, but debate for debate's sake alone, when the topic is God's Holy word, is to my mind one of the most ignoble of human pursuits. --Hank | ||||||