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lsenders@hotmail.com says...
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>Matthew Johnson wrote:
>> In article <07DD6C6C-8DBE-37B2-91A1-17FFE1E68EDB@srcbs.org>,
>> lsenders@hotmail.com says...
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>> >Apparently you are also unschooled in the doctrine of grace.
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>> Apparently it is you who are really unschooled. For only the unschooled think
>>they can persuade anyone by starting out a reply with such an arrogant retort as
>> "Apparently you are also unschooled in the doctrine of grace."
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>As I often point out, your words reveal your inner thought life,
>Matthew.

Words far more applicable to yourself, both in this post and in your preceding
post.

> You would view this as an "arrogant retort."

And rightly so, as you might have guessed if you looked at the other answers to
your post.

> In point of
>fact, what I was saying was that Gary was apparently unlearned in what
>Calvinism actually teaches concerning the doctrine of grace.

No, "in point of fact", this is not what you said at all! You said "unlearned in
the doctrine of grace". It is _another_ proof of your presumption that you
equate that with the _Calvinist_ doctrine -- as you only now admit.

>"Judgment" reveals the heart.

As you yourself have pointed out often, only in _one_ sense of this word. And
that sense is inapplicable here.

> Your condemnation presumes that you
>understood the intent of my heart. But in truth, it only served to
>reveal the operation of your own heart.

So you would love to have us believe. But no, it is you who revealed the
operation of your own heart by denying the obvious.

>A true definition of the Calvinist interpretation of grace is
>wonderfully declared in Chafer's single title, "Grace." I dare say a
>very, very, very small percentage of Protestants understand the
>doctrine let alone those outside the Protestant/Reformed school of
>thought.

If they understood it, they would reject it. And rightly so.


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Subducat se sibi ut haereat Deo
quidquid boni habet, tribuat illi a quo factus est.
(St. Augustine, Ser. 96)


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> Gary McNees wrote:
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> > > > The T for Calvinism means Total Inability.
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> > > OK. So man is impotent to save himself!
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> > Even all A