For my calvinist brothers
"How to destroy a perfectly good theology from the inside:
1. By loving Calvinism as an end in itself.
2. By becoming a theologian instead of a disciple.
3. By loving God's sovereignty more than God himself.
4. By losing an urgency in evangelism.
5. By learning only from other Calvinists.
6. By tidying up the Bibles "loose ends"
7. By being an arrogant know-it-all.
8. By scoffing at the Hang-ups others have with Calvinism." Greg Dutcher, Killing Calvinism
Found this on a Tim Challies blog.
http://www.challies.com/book-reviews/killing-calvinism
Just a few issues atleast - 2. Becoming a theologian instead of a disciple - how can you become a disciple if you do not have the knowledge of God?
3. This one is unintelligible. Do they mean only loving the attribute or are they suggesting that there is a distinction between knowing facts of God and having a relational encounter with God. Just would like to say there are more to God than just his soveriegnty just like Love is not the only divine attribute.
6. What does this one mean? That we should not seek to understand things? This is what makes us apologist. If we never sought to put things together then we would never be able to give a reasonable defense to what we believe.
I like how the Anti-Intellectual side wants to diminish Theology so much that they want to unify around some sort of big blob of mash potatoes. Why call yourself anything if you want to learn from others. I remember various other kinds of philosophers saying basically the same thing. God teaches us in falsehoods as well.
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