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diff --git a/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst b/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 85b9579..0000000 --- a/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -'Calvinism & Purity of Atonement' -################################# - -: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 |