Paul
1 min readOct 18, 2021

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In your response you described me as dominating, obnoxious, dishonest and foolish…and perhaps a couple more things I missed! If this is how your community treats people who disagree with Calvinism (even if they are, admittedly, a little emotional about it), I think you are under thought and emotional control as described by Steven Hassan in his BITE model.

Regardless, I think we agree on this: there ARE things we can know about God and his ways, like salvation being through faith in Christ. That’s probably the more important thing anyway! But I don’t think God calls us to accept his goodness AND the idea of reprobation because 1) those two things are logically incompatible and God IS logical and reasonable and 2) I don’t think reprobation, as Calvin described the term, is a biblical idea.

Neither of those two points is anything other than reasonable even if you disagree with them.

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Paul
Paul

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I write about my experiences in white American evangelicalism.

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