Re: Asking questions as worship

Posted by Bob - the Alien on December 03, 2003 at 18:27:09:

In Reply to: Asking questions as worship posted by PS on December 03, 2003 at 18:14:37:

: Yours is the more Arminian reponse. You may think it is a compilation, but there is another dynamic that is more nuanced regarding which belief invalidates which in the eyes of whom. (We are talking about hundreds of years of reactionary theological development here in many different directions.) The Calvinist believes that every single action is directly under God's control, and to make anything the product of chance is in fact an affront to His sovereignty.

Oh, ho! No, I am in no way Calvinist, then. :)

Drat, though. I must find an answer that cannot be classified into a specific philosophy. Of course, seeing as how all my beliefs are widely published by my church, it is impossible, oh well.

But I will say that the hundreds of years of reactionary theological development are somewhat irrelevant to me. I know that they exist, but I think that true wisdom comes from prayer. So I go with the answers that feel true to me when I pray. Which does not mean the philosophers have nothing to add... just that I am using a different approach.

With Love,
Bob - the Alien

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