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-'Calvinism & Purity of Atonement'
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-:date: 2012-08-01T13:13:13
-:category: faith
-:tags: Bible, Calvinism
-
-While searching for something else I randomly 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