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In reply to the discussion: Evangelicals Find Themselves in the Midst of a Calvinist Revival [View all]okasha
(11,573 posts)33. That sounds like my Presby friends
back in the Sixties, as well as the ones I've worked with more recently in AI and on environmental issues.
One of my dearest friends is Jewish. At the time of her daughter's marriage, their shul had no rabbi. My friend, the Presbyterian minister and the Presbyterian choirmaster/organist were all involved--still are--with local theater groups. So: the Jewish bride's family rented an Assembly of God Church, the Catholic groom wore kippa and shawl, and the Presbyterian minister performed the Jewish wedding service with the Presbyterian musician serving as cantor. More recemtly, the same musician played at the funeral of a gay Catholic friend's mother.
Somehow that just doesn't fit with the Google snippets.
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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