Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Yummy Yummy Yummy I got love in my tummy‏


The central objection to Calvinism has always been, and will always be, that God’s decision to elect some people to salvation whilst leaving (or electing) others to damnation is inconsistent with the notion of divine love.
 
Although Luther was often torn by the existential angst of the unknown God of the hidden decree, Melanchthon saw in the moments of Martin’s grief the face of a God who has the same unconditional love for all his children. In other words, Luther’s love was a pale token of the divine type. And surely it must be this way, for if we shall not find love in the face of a parent for their child, then where in this fallen creation shall we find it?
 
But this is a dangerous starting point for Calvinism. For if we accept the unconditional love of a parent for a child reflects a candlelight glimmer of the blazing solar furnace of the divine love for creation, then what shall be left of an electing love that turns some over to the most unimaginable horrors of eternal damnation?


Here's a good starting point for modeling divine love on unconditional parental love.

HOUSTON (AP) - Wanda Holloway, jailed for trying to hire a hit man to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival, was freed this morning.
 
Ms. Holloway had served six months of a 10-year sentence after pleading no contest to solicitation of capital murder.
 
Jurors in the 1991 trial heard secretly recorded tapes of Ms. Holloway asking her brother-in-law to hire a hit man to kill the mother of a girl who was vying against her daughter for a spot on the cheerleading squad.
 
Ms. Holloway said she wanted the mother killed because she believed that the daughter would be so upset that she would drop out of the competition.

5 comments:

  1. The central objection to Calvinism has always been, and will always be, that God’s decision to elect some people to salvation whilst leaving (or electing) others to damnation is inconsistent with the notion of divine love.

    This is because depraved men hold sinfully warped notions of divine love, not grasping the the infinite holiness and justice of the Triune One true and living God over and against rebellious man's utter and complete deserving of damnation.

    Randall is asking the wrong question about the wrong subject while looking at the wrong object.

    Is he really paid to teach?

    In Christ,
    CD

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  2. Coram -- I suffered through a number of teachers in my study days of whom it could be asked -- are they really paid to teach?

    On another note, I find it interesting and sad and disturbing these attempts by people to reach up and drag God down.

    Again, I think of David Wells wonderful writings on this subject in Above All Earthly Powers as one example.

    When we construct a religion that is based on reaching up to bring God down and does not humble onself to the fact that God must reach down to us -- then we are in trouble.

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  3. "The central objection to Calvinism has always been, and will always be, that God’s decision to elect some people to salvation whilst leaving (or electing) others to damnation is inconsistent with the notion of divine love."

    Maybe it's because it is. Or perhaps Calvinism is just wrong regarding God's election and decrees. It seesm to me it's proper to question such a system.

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  4. It could be the central objection but the question remains -- do we have the right to drag God down and question God? Not Jobian questions where faith remains at the end but questions that end up altering conceptions of God and eroding what our faith is.

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  5. AUGGYBENDOGGY SAID:

    "Maybe it's because it is. Or perhaps Calvinism is just wrong regarding God's election and decrees. It seesm to me it's proper to question such a system."

    Which is completely unresponsive to my post. But thank's for illustrating your inability to mount a reasoned counterargument.

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