Subject: What are Calvins and Arminians? |
Bible Note: Dear Norrie: Your writing is fresh and delightful to read, and you have a decidedly disarming conversational style that is very attractive. "Till the cows come home" is as good a way as anyone could describe the way some issues have been agrued on the forum and will, I suppose, continue to be argued by Christians. Still and all, we Christians do agree on many if not most really important issues and on the one crucial issue: Who is our Lord and Savior?....... I'm a Baptist too, Norrie (Southern Baptist, ma'am!) and had usually considered the term "Baptist Christian" to be redundant, something like saying "widow woman." But you do make a perfectly good case when you say you consider yourself a Christian and only incidentally a Baptist. So, come to think of it, maybe the term "Baptist Christian" is not so redundant after all. There could be (but I hope not) a Baptist or two around who calls himself a Christian but who really doesn't have a saving knowledge of Jesus, so he wouldn't be a Christian then, would he?...... Now about this Calvinism-Arminianism (election-free will) issue -- well, I know some people who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Saved, I say. Children of the King. But they don't know beans about either doctrine. Doesn't that put these issues in a little better perspective?..... One book other than the Bible itself that's good to read in order to get away from the trees of denominationalism and see the forest of Christianity is "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis. That man knew how to write and he had some worthwhile things to say. Blessings to you in your life and walk with the Lord. --Hank |