As my wife and I have tried to honestly wrestle through Calvinism she made the comment after reading Spurgeon's (who we love) defense of limited atonemnet, she said "It Only Stands To Reason seem to preface every leap away from the bounds that scripture puts on these thoughts." As I thought about this, I found eery time a man attempts to tie the TULIP into a neat bow, they need to preface "It only stands to reason" in front of those areas they leap off into the abyss of fallen man's reasoning. Reform theology always draws people of astounding intellect; however, it seems to turn into a man worshiping event instead of worshiping the astounding God of Calvin and Luther...we are all prone to disconnect from our only source of power (i.e., the Word) and connect our minds and thoughts to mens thoughts (where there is much truth but little to no power). It's all so subtle!