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In reply to the discussion: Evangelicals Find Themselves in the Midst of a Calvinist Revival [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)5. I don't know much about this, but the way I read it is that
even if your are chosen, you have to accept.
So I would guess that the evangelizing is meant to reach those that have been chosen but don't know it.
Do you know much about what criteria they think god uses to select? Are people selected before birth?
I also find the idea that god would love some people more than others really screwed up. It is completely counter to what I was taught, which is that god loves all equally but cares more for those at the bottom. Cares might be the wrong word here, though.
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Problem: some Calvinism says nothing WE do can save us; its only the (random) help from God
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#31
Unless you ordered their lives so it would happen, created the life where it would happen, etc.
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#44
Except that throughout history, we see countless people that are forced to lie in the beds...
trotsky
Jan 2014
#47
Unless God created everything as we are told; including the devil himself. And evil itself.
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#49
Can we? Does conventional theology really hold up? Can we be blamed by God for evil? Is it OUR fault
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#53