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wrote in message
news:E728D5B1-4777-A832-945A-8C09585CA74B@srcbs.org...
> Matthew Johnson wrote:
> > In article
<07DD6C6C-8DBE-37B2-91A1-17FFE1E68EDB@srcbs.org>,
> > lsenders@hotmail.com says...
>
snip
>
> 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.

I have read Chafer's book "Grace," many times.

I understand Calvinism's "doctrine of Grace," all to well.

I understand that according to Calvinism God could have
saved everyone. Since He could have used "irresistible
grace" on everyone.

In stead He chooses to irresistibly save only a few, and
"pass by" the many, justly damning them to eternity in hell
for their sins, which they could not but do, by His eternal
decree.

Now it is self-evident that this God is not all to
all-loving.

His love of grace and salvation being exercised upon a the
few "elect."

Gary



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"Matthew Johnson" wrote in
message
news:BCE2A07D-ED0E-6476-F375-AC5F0985FB8B@srcbs.org...
> In article
<8A7C78A0-C8D1-32F1-473D-6F4F867BA73C@srcbs.org>, Gary
says...
>
>
> [snip]
>
> >All of their "dogmas" are based on the philosophies of
man.
> >Particularly, Augustine, Calvin, and Luther - and those
who
> >followed them into grievous error.
>
> Augustine? "Grievous error"? Bite your tongue! Augustine's
errors were minor by
> comparison with those of Calvin and Luther.

I should have said, "Their perception of Augustine." For
there
is still some controversy over Augustine's position on some
things
that Calvinists and the "reformed" claim for him.

> In particular, it is a gross error to blame Augustine for
the terrible
> misunderstandings of grace & free will that Luther and
Calvin read into
> Augustine's works. That is why I keep reminding people: if
you read ALL of what
> Augustine wrote concerning grace, predestination and
free-will, you come away
> with a very different picture than the picture Luther and
Calvin paint.

Yes, but how few have read ALL of Augustine? Nevertheless,
what has
been posted here, shows that the Calvinist interpretation of
him is highly
questionable.

> Why, even if you don't read everything, but read only his
latest and least
> polemical wor