Subject: What are Calvins and Arminians? |
Bible Note: I want to thank all of you for enlightening me on this subject. I guess I do think that Arminian fits more with my ideas of what the Bible says than Calvin. However, I won't take the label of either one even if I do agree w/one over the other. Saying you're a Calvinist or Arminian seems like you're saying you're following that person instead of Jesus and I never really heard of either one of them really, I did hear John Calvin before as a name to do w/Protestentism but never knew exactly what he thought. I guess if someone never heard of either of these people and there was a split about whether they believed this or that, then maybe they could say they're the "ites" of whoever leads the discussion, that just doesn't seem right to me. I prefer to just still have my only label be a Christian or follower of Christ. If you say you are a Calvinist or an Arninian, isn't that saying you are following that particular person? Even if you say you're a Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, etc. it seems that is saying the denominiation is more important than Christ is. Maybe it would be OK to say I'm a Baptist Christian or Calvin Christian if you wanted to expound further but Christian is still the important label to me. :) Thank you all again for your help. I take it you have already discussed this in depth and the Calvins won't change their minds and the Arminians won't change theirs either? :) It's kinda like are you pretrib, midtrib, post trib or no rapture period. Or maybe it's like is the earth 6000 yrs old are 20 billion. I guess these are things you can argue with till the cows come home and nobody will change their position no matter how convincing the other side is. I guess there are some things we won't know till we die and go to heaven. Of course we might be alive to find out about the rapture tho-then we might know who was right. Personally, I hope it's pretrib but as long as I go, who cares!!! |