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+title: 'Calvinism & Purity of Atonement'
+categories:
+  - faith
+date: 2012-08-01T13:13:13
+tags:
+---
+
+I randomly while searching for something else hit on these_ two_
+video presentations of one very fighting Calvinist. It felt to me like
+from the different world: it sounded most of all like the Chesterton’s
+lunatic who was perfectly rational. This guy is sitting in front of tons
+and tons of what I believe are deep Biblical thoughts, which people
+spent their whole lives thinking about and writing, and yet he doesn’t
+understand (and I am afraid doesn’t want to understand) a word of what
+is going on in the John 3:16 Conference.
+
+In the conference, another man comes and describes in a bit of emotional
+confusion his personal experience about how he met Jesus personally. He
+goes quite overboard, rejected all his past theology, and probably truly
+in his testimony suggests that God doesn’t accept Calvinists or
+something of that sort. Such revelation of sudden meaning of known words
+certainly exists. I can certainly testify to my similar experience when
+I found that things I happened to actually even teach were suddenly for
+me revealed as very personal and existential experience. I think I was
+very strongly warned by God, that I shouldn’t reject everything I
+believe before (although of course, that was tempting) and that I should
+rather work on better understanding of my experience and Scripture. Now,
+usually when one describes how she found purely rational understanding
+of Bible to be insufficient for her relationship with God, she don’t use
+many Biblical verses to support her thesis. Kind of makes sense to me.
+However, not to the Calvinist: existence of a personal revelation and a
+life-changing experience seems to be suspicious to the Chesterton’s
+madman.
+
+And yet, I cannot exclude a possibility that the only mistake this man
+did was to mistake highly sophisticated academic discussion with the
+popular conference. Is this just misdirected legitimate theological
+discussion which is presented as a public show instead in the Journal of
+Theology? Or is whole Reformed theology just a Christian version of
+pilpul, deep, complicated and mostly useless discussion about the Bible?
+Not sure.
+
+.. _these:
+    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdUtAy2Hc-4
+.. _two:
+    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QGJsGw36Hk