Does it even mean anything to be a 'Calvinist'?

[Tomyris]

Due to that we need to qualify what it is we believe or we can give peope false impressions that can cause them to make mistakes.

Which I think bears back to my OP: does the word 'Calvinist' bear a satisfactory meaning to today's hearers? I realize telling someone 4,000 pages of doctrinal position usually does not cut it, so there must be some way to communicate something.

Perhaps I am wandering off into the abyss of relative semantics.

 

[Osage Bluestem]

Which I think bears back to my OP: does the word 'Calvinist' bear a satisfactory meaning to today's hearers? I realize telling someone 4,000 pages of doctrinal position usually does not cut it, so there must be some way to communicate something.

Perhaps I am wandering off into the abyss of relative semantics.

Today "Calvinist" just means you believe TULIP soteriology, but not necessarily all of it. It is best understood that one believes regeneration preceeds faith if he is a "Calvinist" in our modern vernacular.

That encompasses a diverse horde of people.

 

[JustAsIam77]

I am all in favor of grace. I will take mercy over justice every time.

Amen.

You may be interested in the "debate with a Calvinist" area.

God bless.

 

[Tomyris]

Amen.

You may be interested in the "debate with a Calvinist" area.

God bless.

Thank you.

 

[JM]

I like to break it down this way...

Monergism and Synergism - YouTube

 

[Tomyris]

I like to break it down this way...

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I am just one of those monergists, I guess. Sigh. Can't do anything about it, either.


Why would God build a bridge that goes only 90% of the way across an infinite chasm, anyway? Or is that just a cheap shot at synergists?

 

[AmericanSamurai]

If you say you are Calvinist, you may be mistaken for one of Mark Driscoll's rebels.

 

[AmericanSamurai]

I remember a few months back Mark Driscoll ruffled Johnny Mac's feathers by proclaiming he loved to quaff English and imported beers, lol.

The Grace to You Blog was blown up with outrage over Driscoll's "Young, restless, and Reformed" rebels.