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FellowshipOfTheMystery · Apr 11, 2006

Brothers and Sisters,

After prayerful consideration I requested to have my religious affiliation icon changed from the generic Christian to Calvinist. It took me a while but I couldn't fight it any more!

Good to be among you.

Peace,
FOTM

Elderone · Apr 11, 2006

Welcome FellowshipOfTheMystery. Calvinism can be difficult to come to accept, but once that happens the Bible starts making more sense and things start falling into place.

McWilliams · Apr 11, 2006

"Why was I made to hear His voice
And enter while there's room?
While others make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come.
'Twas the same love that spread the feast,
Which sweetly forced me in;
Else I had still refused to taste,
And perished in my sin."
(anon)

James1979 · Apr 11, 2006

No one should called themselives calvinist, baptist, catholic and so on. It's a disgrace to our Creator. I mean you don't see believers in the bible quoting saying I"m a mosaicnism (moses), I'm of isaiah the prophet, jeremiah and so on. We should called our doctrine, the doctrine of God/Gospel of Christ because they are scriptural.

cygnusx1 · Apr 11, 2006

James1979 said:
No one should called themselives calvinist, baptist, catholic and so on. It's a disgrace to our Creator. I mean you don't see believers in the bible quoting saying I"m a mosaicnism (moses), I'm of isaiah the prophet, jeremiah and so on. We should called our doctrine, the doctrine of God/Gospel of Christ because they are scriptural.

yes we know that , you are missing the point , in debates etc clarity helps , so when one sees Calvinist or Catholic or Orthodox one knows straight away where the other person is coming from .........

and the name Christian was not given by God to the Church it was a nickname (like Puritan) !

The early church were called Elect brother or Elect sister.

McWilliams · Apr 11, 2006

James1979 said:
No one should called themselives calvinist, baptist, catholic and so on. It's a disgrace to our Creator. I mean you don't see believers in the bible quoting saying I"m a mosaicnism (moses), I'm of isaiah the prophet, jeremiah and so on. We should called our doctrine, the doctrine of God/Gospel of Christ because they are scriptural.

Actually to a calvinist it means the same as 'biblical', or Truth without compromise! It declares that all we believe honors God, the message is about Him, what He did, does, will do! If someone tells me they're calvinist I know right off that their intent is to honor God in all they do, all they believe! It declares them to believe Sola Scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide, sola Christus, sola deo gloria!
What are your beliefs? How can we be of help?

cygnusx1 · Apr 11, 2006

FellowshipOfTheMystery said:
Brothers and Sisters,

After prayerful consideration I requested to have my religious affiliation icon changed from the generic Christian to Calvinist. It took me a while but I couldn't fight it any more!

Good to be among you.

Peace,
FOTM

welcome Elect brother FOTM

BBAS 64 · Apr 11, 2006

FellowshipOfTheMystery said:
Brothers and Sisters,

After prayerful consideration I requested to have my religious affiliation icon changed from the generic Christian to Calvinist. It took me a while but I couldn't fight it any more!

Good to be among you.

Peace,
FOTM

Good Day, FOTM

Welcome!! Would you be so kind as to share your travel...

http://www.christianforums.com/t1244067-i-just-wanted-to-share-why-i-became-a-calvinist-feel-free-to-share.html

Peace to u,

Bill

arunma · Apr 11, 2006

FellowshipOfTheMystery said:
Brothers and Sisters,

After prayerful consideration I requested to have my religious affiliation icon changed from the generic Christian to Calvinist. It took me a while but I couldn't fight it any more!

Good to be among you.

Peace,
FOTM

Glad to hear that you've embraced the doctrines of grace! I think you'll find that the Bible now makes a lot more sense (not that the words have changed, but you now have discarded human logic).

seekingpurity047 · Apr 11, 2006

FellowshipOfTheMystery said:
Brothers and Sisters,

After prayerful consideration I requested to have my religious affiliation icon changed from the generic Christian to Calvinist. It took me a while but I couldn't fight it any more!

Good to be among you.

Peace,
FOTM

A Christian by the grace of God and a calvinist because you read your bible

To the glory of God,

Randy

inchristalone221 · Apr 11, 2006

Glad to have you

Welcome into the fold of orthodoxy

No one should called themselives calvinist, baptist, catholic and so on. It's a disgrace to our Creator. I mean you don't see believers in the bible quoting saying I"m a mosaicnism (moses), I'm of isaiah the prophet, jeremiah and so on. We should called our doctrine, the doctrine of God/Gospel of Christ because they are scriptural.

FellowshipOfTheMystery · Apr 11, 2006

Amen!

And thank you all for the warmest of welcomes!

Imblessed · Apr 12, 2006

James1979 said:
No one should called themselives calvinist, baptist, catholic and so on. It's a disgrace to our Creator. I mean you don't see believers in the bible quoting saying I"m a mosaicnism (moses), I'm of isaiah the prophet, jeremiah and so on. We should called our doctrine, the doctrine of God/Gospel of Christ because they are scriptural.

James, you are living a dream that will not exist until after Jesus' return. It's sounds great, but it's just not possible in a fallen world.

I may be wrong here, but I just don't think anyone here goes around outside of CF and says to some one off hand, oh I'm a CALVINIST btw. (cue pretentious voice here). I think we all claim simply to be christian.

I know that when I am discussing religion with people outside of here, the word calvinism doesn't ever come up, unless I'm among mature believers and we happen to be discussing soteriology or something. (which has actually only happened once, among family)

HOWEVER, in the context of Christian forums, sometimes it's much much easier to put up by your name your particular belief system within christianity so that others will have a general idea of how you think and respond to different things here at CF. If we were all to put just christian down and try to move here and there within CF, there would be lots and lots of confusion.

And honestly, the division that happens in here would happen whether we display the "name" of our particular denomination or belief system by our names, or not.

Please, try to understand we put the icon by our names, not to divide, but to clarify, which, IMHO, is a big difference.

In christ
windi

Imblessed · Apr 12, 2006

FellowshipOfTheMystery said:
Amen!

And thank you all for the warmest of welcomes!

Welcome, FOTM!

It took me some time to decide to change my icon also. I was a bit worried that by displaying it, I would seem a bit "proud" or divisive, but I've come to see that it really does help in disussions with other people to have the icons up there, so one can see "where the other's coming from" so to speak.

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