A Daytripper's Guide to Rhode Island

Directions to and descriptions of natural and coastal places to visit throughout the state. Includes explanations of the origin and significance of some natural features and a detailed pdf map. From Rhode Island Sea Grant program.

Blackstone Valley Tourism Council

Visitor information about the Blackstone River Valley region including attractions, lodging, events, and history. Based out of a visitor center in Pawtucket.

GORP Rhode Island Travel Tourism and Recreation Guide

A comprehensive guide to travel, tourism and recreation in Rhode Island including activities, outdoor attractions, and maps.

Just for Students

Infoprmation intended for URI students about regional attractions, restaurants, shopping, outdoor activies, and towns, cities, and colleges in the state.

New England for Visitors: Rhode Island

About.com web directory to attractions and accommodations in the state.

Rhode Island Lights

A directory of lighthouses.

Visit Rhode Island

Official site of the Rhode Island Tourism Division.

Visit RI

Rhode Island travel, tourism and vacations.

World-Tourist.com - Rhode Island

Local information and tourist attractions for Rhode Island including Newport mansions, yachting races and Block Island.

Gary McNees wrote:

>
> Well, here we agree wholeheartedly. The notion of sovereignty taught
by
> the Calvinists makes God the author, cause, and doer of sin. That
they
> deny this is because they have no problems with illogic.
>
When I read you and other place this objection before Calvinistic
theology, I just shake my head and wonder if any of you have read
Calvin for yourselves. This is a false deduction. It is akin to a
JfW declaring that Christians are not really monotheist. It is a
complete misapprehension of the doctrine and the whole of theology.
Calvinism is not inerrant. No school of theology is. However, it best
represent the normative interpretation of scripture. It has the fewest
inconsistences. It has the most consistent system. It best adheres to
Christ's own use of the scriptures. And though there is must
appreciation of Augustine's theology, it separates itself from
Augustine in refusing to accept any of Plato's view of reality
presuppositionally. Calvinism's sola scriptura separates it self from
all forms of humanistic interpretation of what it is. It refuses the
I-it and the I-Thou dicotomy. There are no other systems which do
this.
>
> It is one thing to Permit or Allow your child to disobey you, and
quite
> another to cause them to do so. Because of their faulty anthropology,

> faulty soteriology, faulty sovereignty, they have essentially one
real
> will in the universe.
>
I don't know how else to debate this other than you haven't a clue what
Calvinism actually teaches. Beyond this, you have little appreciation
of either epistomology or hamartology as taught within the scriptures.
Nor do you exhibit an understanding of all that is involved in
antithetical, let alone presuppositional thought forms.

Calvinism teaches the biblical revelation that man is dead. His sin
incapacitates him to restore himself to his original position. Not
only that, but God cannot restore him to his original state unless a
"new man" is created / regenerated. There is no rehibilitation of the
"old man" in Calvinist / Biblical thinking.

To fail to appraise man's true nature stems from the fact that it is
not rooted in God's estimation, but rather man's own estimation.

And yes, there is "essentially one real will in the universe." He
willfully planned for angelic rebellion and for man's rebellion. This
why I continually note that there is no chance behind God. There is
nothing of a contingent nature in the Eternal Decree. Yet consciously,
does man operate under such a sovereign restraint? No. But He is the
Restrainer. He does not allow evil to step outside of its predetermine
limits. Satan had to gain permission to visit trouble upon Job. Yet
he was restrained. Did this violate Satan's free-will? Not