RE: A Real and Significant Biblical Contradiction?
August 5, 2012 at 8:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2012 at 8:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 5, 2012 at 7:45 pm)spockrates Wrote: Yes, who knows? You might be picked up out of the pen you're in and, as C.S. Lewis said of himself, be picked up and carried "kicking and screaming" into the other pen. I might follow you, if the Calvinists who tell me I'm only imagining I'm in their pen are correct!
But yes, it's a troubling idea to me, too, but perhaps for different reasons. The idea seems based on the premise that who is heaven bound and who is hell-bent is based son a completely arbitrary decision of God.
Arbitrary decisions of god probably shouldn't bother someone who is devoted to the same. In then end, all decisions attributed to god must be arbitrary, else we erode the idea of god in the first place. That these arbitrary decisions are unsatisfying to us, as human beings, doesn't surprise me in the least. Ergo apologetics.
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