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Marine Sales and Services

Harbor Country Marine Service

Boat brokerage including listing with pictures, brief description, and prices. Located in New Buffalo.

Hi Performance Boats, Inc.

Specializes in power and offshore racing boats. New and used inventory of their Grand Rapids location is available online.

Narrows Marina

Offers a variety of water craft rentals on Glen Lake from their location in Glen Arbor. Water craft descriptions, pricing, and reservation information online.

Sunset Coast Yacht Sales

Sales of new boats and yachts. Includes used listing with descriptions, prices, and pictures. Located in New Buffalo.

The Edge

Sells boats and ski and wakeboard equipment. Includes used boat listing with descriptions and prices. Located in Portage.

Torch River Marine

Offers new and pre-owned sales, rentals, service, and storage at their Rapid City location. Online inventory and rental information.

Yacht Works, Inc.

Full service marina, and yacht sales and brokerage. Includes used boat listing with descriptions, pictures, and prices. Located on Wisconsin's Door County peninsula, on the shores of Green Bay and Lake Michigan.



"Matthew Johnson" wrote in message
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> In article <139.59.11.05.907135000@srcbs.org>, Bart Goddard says...
>
> >gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:
>
> >> I still do not agree. On the one hand some Calvinists state the
> >> man is RESPONSIBLE for his actions, but on the other hand,
> >> they also believe that God causes all his actions.
>
> >This is not a logical contradiction. You're using an
> >axiom which says "A being can responsible only if he has
> >freedom." I don't agree that the axiom is a good one.
>
> True. But if you did accept it, as Gary and many lurkers do, then it
> IS a contradiction. Besides: we _know_ you don't accept it. What we
> don't understand is why you think this is a good idea.
>
> >I can't think of any reason why it ought to be true,
>
> I can. It was outlined in great detail in the first three paragraphs of De
> Gratia & Libero Arbitrio.
>
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>
> In _what_ legal or ethical system? Perhaps only in one that is badly
> in need of reform, such as the Texan system;)
>
> >God can make a guilty, freedomless man if He wants to.
>
> An axiom very pleasing to Calvinist's and those Lutherans who fell
> under the dark spell of Luther's "On the Bondage of the Will". But an
> irrelevant one, since God did NOT want to make a guilty freedomless
> man. Such a 'man' could NOT have been called "created in the image and
> likeness of God".
>
> >> Another is that God is GOOD.
> >
> >That's not an internal contradiction, but rather something
> >which conflicts with your own (external) definition of
> >"good".
>
> It is not "Gary's definition", it is the Bible's. Nor is it
> 'external'. It is what God reveals about Himself (Mt 5:44-48).
>
> >> For example, they claim on the one hand that God determines
> >> all things, both Good and Bad. But some admit that the bad
> >> He only "permits." (Calvin and other famous Calvinists deny
> >> even this.) But then they claim that what they call "free will,"
> >> is such that the man cannot choose otherwise. Hence cannot
> >> choose to not commit a particular sin.
> >
> >And yet, you said almost the same thing. Something like
> >"God is the ultimate cause but not the immediate cause."
>
> No, what Gary said was what St. Augustine and St. Basil said: God is
> not the cause of any evil, not even that sinners are lost. Sinners
> have themselves as the cause of that.
>
> To quote the latter directly:
>
> First, let it be fixed in our minds that as we are the creations of
> the good God and remain in His power, Who arranges all thin