Subject: Is there middle ground? |
Bible Note: 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 |