"Bob Felts" wrote in message
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> Gary wrote:
>
> > "Bob Felts" wrote in message
> > news:67BCD2E9-8099-C475-1381-9162675669BC@srcbs.org...
> > > Gary wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Bob Felts" wrote in message
> > > >
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> > > > > Gary wrote:
> > > > >
> > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > So I believe God.
> > > > >
> > > > > No, you believe your simplistic and contradictory
view of what you
> > > > > think Scripture says.
> > > >
> > > > Most Christians view the this point as I do. You are
in the very small
> > > > tiny minority. The "reformed" position is a minority
position among
> > > > even evangelical Christians, let alone all
Christians.
> > >
> > > So what? Truth has never been determined by numbers.
If you want to
> > > take refuge in the multitude, be my guest.
> >
> > So nothing.
>
> Right. This line of argumentation is worthless. Truth
isn't a matter
> of numbers, so if you truly valued logic, you wouldn't
have brought it
> up.

While it is not determinitive, it is important. That most
Christians who believe the Bible reject Calvinism and
believe that it is throughly false and heritical should
not be considered unimportant. To believe that men
who just came out of Romanism should get the gospel
entirely correct is not unlikly, but the null event.

>
> > Just wanted to mention that most evangelical Christians,
who believe the
> > Bible, and take it to be the only rule of faith, reject
the Calvinist
> > position.
> >
>
> And I'm sure you would have given this advice to Luther.

Was Luther a Calinist? I don't think anyone could give any
advice to Luther.

> > It is not a minor concern. The views of Calvinists
regarding the nature of
> > God and those who oppose Calvinism are very far apart.
> >
>
> Indeed. My God is absolutely sovereign.
No, your god is a despot.
>
> > > The Apostle Paul is far, far more radical than most
Christians are
> > > willing to admit.
> >
> > Not at all. Paul is the one who said most of the stuff
which refutes
> > Calvinism, like:
> >
> > I Tim. 2: 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight
of
> > God our Saviour; 4 Who will have ALL men to be saved,
and to
> > come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one
> >