From 64271f903c43d7cf81603dd0d3ef5455f2c74b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matěj Cepl Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:31:08 +0200 Subject: Current state --- _posts/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst (limited to '_posts/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst') diff --git a/_posts/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst b/_posts/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4dee248 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/calvinism-purity-of-atonement.rst @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +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 -- cgit