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The Evangelical's Narrower Catechism

The Evangelical's Narrower Catechism

Postby Karen » September 14th, 2007, 6:31 pm

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Postby Boromir » September 14th, 2007, 7:15 pm

Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

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Postby Karen » September 14th, 2007, 7:31 pm

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Postby Boromir » September 15th, 2007, 8:40 am

Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

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Postby mitchellmckain » September 15th, 2007, 9:37 am

It is identified on the web as "Semi-Pelagian", which is a term used by the Augustinian/Calvinist/Reformed Theology camp to ridicule those who disagree with them such as the Arminians.

SO, this was not written by an evangelical, but probably by Reformed Christians to mock a sector of Christianity different than their own.
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Postby AllanS » September 15th, 2007, 11:56 am

I thought it was written by a Catholic Calvinist. :shocked:

46. Q:Can God force someone to love him freely?

A: All things are possible. As soon as God's finished drawing his square circle, he'll be right onto it.
“And turn their grief into song?" he replied. "That would be a gracious act and a good beginning."

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Postby Karen » September 15th, 2007, 1:02 pm

Ok, ok, I guess this didn't go over the way I thought it would. Mods, feel free to delete it....
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Postby Adam » September 15th, 2007, 4:51 pm

"Love is the only art that poorly imitates nature."
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Postby Rosie Cotton » September 15th, 2007, 6:21 pm

... and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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Postby rusmeister » September 15th, 2007, 7:11 pm

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Postby girlfreddy » September 15th, 2007, 9:27 pm

How would telling people to be nice to one another get a man crucified? What government would execute Mister Rogers or Captain Kangaroo?
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Postby AllanS » September 15th, 2007, 9:38 pm

“And turn their grief into song?" he replied. "That would be a gracious act and a good beginning."

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Postby Boromir » September 17th, 2007, 9:32 am

Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

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Postby David Jack » September 22nd, 2007, 5:14 am

in a similar vein, this is from a book called 'positive thinking for calvinists'. it's a secular publication, so it doesn't really address theology as such, and presumably they also had less of an axe to grind than did the 'evangelical catechism' writers.

"You are perilously near to becoming a calvinist if...

You enjoy talking to people in King James English

You are building a pulpit for your living room

You believe Moses should have shaved

You have a picture of Sodom and Gomorrah, the day after they got it, and you look at it a lot and smile

You scrawl bible verses on the bathroom walls of your local pub

You thought back to the future was a movie about biblical prophecy

You keep biblical tracts in your mobile phone carrying case

You can trace Saddam Hussein's genealogy to nebuchadnezzar

You think genuflect is a type of mirror

You wish you could preach like Ian Paisley

You know that 'Santa', unscrambled, is 'Satan'."
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Postby postodave » September 28th, 2007, 4:43 pm

Can I suggest that the polemics between Calvinism and Arminianism or Protestantism and Catholicism are at certain points particularly fruitless because what you are doing is arguing about which of two complimentary metaphors is the true and only valid one. I am particularly thinking about this bloke getting on to the thing about man being dead in his sins rather than sick (sometimes said by Roman Catholics to be the favoured metaphor). Seems odd when scripture clearly uses both images.
So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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