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Subject: Re: The world�s most evil beliefs & the most important issue

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Date Posted: 10:10:59 12/18/08 Thu
In reply to: Rodger Tutt 's message, "The world�s most evil beliefs & the most important issue" on 22:34:47 11/15/08 Sat

>The god that Arminian Christian eternal tormentors
>profess to love says to his fallen creatures
>
>�Unless you are lucky enough to find out about my son
>during this lifetime, and even if you are that lucky,
>if you don�t have the good sense to cooperate with my
>son properly before you die, then I am going to raise
>you from the dead and I will sustain you alive in an
>inescapable state of eternal torment forever.�
>
>The eternal torment theology of the Calvinist
>Christian relies on God alone, not �free will� at all.
>It is summed up by the word TULIP: Total depravity,
>Unconditional election, Limited atonement,
>Irresistible grace, and the Perseverance of the elect.
>
>The god that Calvinistic Christian eternal tormentors
>profess to love says to his fallen creatures
>
>"I created most of you for the purpose of torturing
>you forever. However, I am going to choose a few of
>you undeserving ones to go to heaven where you will be
>happy forever." John Calvin said there will be infants
>a span long in hell because they were not among the
>elect. (A span is the distance between the tip of the
>thumb to the tip of the little finger.)
>
>And then both the Arminian and Calvinistic eternal
>tormentors say that the feelings that they have for
>this god of theirs is �love.�
>
>Without God�s sustaining power everyone would cease to
>exist. So if anyone were to suffer forever, our
>all-powerful God (Who is Love in essence, not just
>loving) would be fully 100% responsible for it. We
>would have to conclude that any definition of the
>manifestation of �love-in-essence� includes eternally
>sustaining people alive in an inescapable state of
>suffering.
>
>What a travesty; what a revolting definition of love
>it is that God, Who is love personified, would grant
>any creature a will so strong that they can choose
>themselves into an irreversible state of never ending
>suffering (Arminian) or deserve to suffer forever just
>by being born into the human race (Calvinist)!!

I don't know what bible you are reading, but God has revealed Himself and His will in His Word. To come up with something other than what is revealed in that Word is to worship a god of your own making.

I would warn you to be very careful not to fall into idolatry because that's what we do when we try to create God into an image that we find more "likable."

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