A Misunderstanding
I know, I know… I promised Ephesians 1 and Romans 8… That’s next time. I had a BFO…
Romans 10:13: “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
This is the verse most quoted to me by Evangelical Calvinists as a defeat of Reformed Calvinism. I struggled with it for quite some time, though not like you might think. Most people would assume that the nature of my struggling was an attempt to rationalize my belief in the face of a compelling argument against it - or to find a way to explain it away. (more…)
Low and Behold
Well after much deliberation and a suggestion from my wife, I have arrived at a better term. I have freely acknowledged that “Arminian” doesn’t really fit the bill for what I was trying to use it for, but I didn’t want to have to say “Less than five point Calvinist” over and over again (contrary to what readers of The Weird Looking Thing Growing Out of the Woodpile might possibly believe). So We’ve come up with a better term - actually two. Instead of calling myself a Calvinist and the others Arminians (b/c they are not really at all Arminian), I shall call myself a Reformed Calvinist - for I hold to the Calvinistic doctrines as are held by most reformed churches, and the others Evangelical Calvinists - for they claim to be Calvinistic in some regard (security… depravity… etc.) but I’ve found that their view of God has been too much influenced by American ideals. The word “rights” influences their thinking way too much - especially when applied to humanity. (more…)