freelight
Eclectic Theosophist
The God who abandons souls, is NOT a God of love..................
The God who abandons souls, is NOT a God of love..................
Hello EE and all following
I've had my share of taking on various aspects of Calvinism, on points I think that matter, over the years,.....Here is my last post on the 'Free Will' thread (see all links therein), where I link my 'The God that passes over you' post and many others there, where beloved57 and Nanja are taken to task on their divisive 'theology'. I think the dragon has been slain - it just doesn't die easy.
I've only read some of the first page and latter end of the thread,...so I haven't read the bulk of it yet, but thought to chime in, while the going's good, unless the subject has reached its exhaustion point Hope the wind of the heretic hunters doesn't blow down your post from the hallowed doors, although I'm sure you guys have taken TULIP to the woodshed so to speak :crackup:
As I share in my post and linked posts within it, the very concept of 'Preterition' (passing over, ignoring, abandoning!) souls is inimical to love, heartless, insane, antithetical to all that is true, good and beautiful,....all that qualities and attributes Deity is supposed to be. A 'god' who passes over the greater % of souls and leaves them FOR DEAD, is not a 'God' of love, much less a gracious or caring person, if such a cruel being could be called a 'person' (I see 'God' as being a 'personality' but also MORE, transcending our finite concept of personhood). And I tread lightly here, out of respect for 'Real God'....and only criticize what I feel is a misrepresentation of 'God', a 'caricature' created by the theology of men, of one particular denomination or another, who has made 'God' more or less in their own image and likeness, and how often do we by 'mirror psychology' reflect or create what images we deem are real or best serves us?. Its time to research 'image' and 'substance'.
A particularly odd aspect of hyper-Calvinism (even the soft-boiled variety), is that it worships a 'god' who only elects a small group to be saved, by no choice of their own, while passing over all others, leaving them in their sins TO DIE, to suffer hellfire, to be eternally damned. It is then assumed that this 'god', because of its exalted ego, becomes even more glorified thru the eternal damnation of sinners, because this SOMEHOW reveals his eternal goodness, grace and lovingkindness :idunno: Its insanity. Okay,...gonna break it off here, lest the TULIP petals fly lol. - but seriously folks. Innnnnncredible.
The God who abandons souls, is NOT a God of love..................
[MENTION=17195]daqq[/MENTION], [MENTION=3698]Tambora[/MENTION], [MENTION=15685]musterion[/MENTION], [MENTION=10]Jerry Shugart[/MENTION], [MENTION=16942]JudgeRightly[/MENTION], [MENTION=15338]Right Divider[/MENTION], [MENTION=9508]Robert Pate[/MENTION], [MENTION=16283]Sonnet[/MENTION], [MENTION=12870]steko[/MENTION], [MENTION=17845]beameup[/MENTION], [MENTION=19425]Aetheryn[/MENTION], [MENTION=10365], [MENTION=1746]freelight[/MENTION], [MENTION=13925]Grosnick Marowbe[/MENTION] @... anyone you know that is interested in giving the premise of this OP a spin tonight...
Brother [MENTION=17677]Crucible[/MENTION] has been kind enough to submit this OP's first official Calvinist rebuttal.
I'll be back onsite tomorrow, but I would hate to deny [MENTION=17677]Crucible[/MENTION] any possible debate and intellectual discussion.
[MENTION=7209]Ask Mr. Religion[/MENTION],
You are welcome to assist [MENTION=17677]Crucible[/MENTION] in the defense of his submitted counter points.
IF ANYONE ENGAGES IN DEBATE, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM CONDEMNIMG ANYONE TO HELL IN ANY FORM OR FASHION.
Hello EE and all following
I've had my share of taking on various aspects of Calvinism, on points I think that matter, over the years,.....Here is my last post on the 'Free Will' thread (see all links therein), where I link my 'The God that passes over you' post and many others there, where beloved57 and Nanja are taken to task on their divisive 'theology'. I think the dragon has been slain - it just doesn't die easy.
I've only read some of the first page and latter end of the thread,...so I haven't read the bulk of it yet, but thought to chime in, while the going's good, unless the subject has reached its exhaustion point Hope the wind of the heretic hunters doesn't blow down your post from the hallowed doors, although I'm sure you guys have taken TULIP to the woodshed so to speak :crackup:
As I share in my post and linked posts within it, the very concept of 'Preterition' (passing over, ignoring, abandoning!) souls is inimical to love, heartless, insane, antithetical to all that is true, good and beautiful,....all that qualities and attributes Deity is supposed to be. A 'god' who passes over the greater % of souls and leaves them FOR DEAD, is not a 'God' of love, much less a gracious or caring person, if such a cruel being could be called a 'person' (I see 'God' as being a 'personality' but also MORE, transcending our finite concept of personhood). And I tread lightly here, out of respect for 'Real God'....and only criticize what I feel is a misrepresentation of 'God', a 'caricature' created by the theology of men, of one particular denomination or another, who has made 'God' more or less in their own image and likeness, and how often do we by 'mirror psychology' reflect or create what images we deem are real or best serves us?. Its time to research 'image' and 'substance'.
A particularly odd aspect of hyper-Calvinism (even the soft-boiled variety), is that it worships a 'god' who only elects a small group to be saved, by no choice of their own, while passing over all others, leaving them in their sins TO DIE, to suffer hellfire, to be eternally damned. It is then assumed that this 'god', because of its exalted ego, becomes even more glorified thru the eternal damnation of sinners, because this SOMEHOW reveals his eternal goodness, grace and lovingkindness :idunno: Its insanity. Okay,...gonna break it off here, lest the TULIP petals fly lol. - but seriously folks. Innnnnncredible.