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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friendly, Christ-like people in the reformed tradition are that way despite, not because of, their theology.  Calvin’s god is a monster. [/quote]

Yikes. You really don't understand John Calvin, do you.
-lifelong Calvinist[/quote]

Lifelong Calvinists always say things like this, but I've never seen one actually explain why the God imagined by Calvin shouldn't be seen as a monster. I am aware that Calvin himself seems to have been a decent guy (at least by the standard of the time) who regretted some of the theological conclusions he felt he had to reach. But we're not talking about Calvin; we're talking about his understanding of God. [/quote]

What part of the God of Augustine/Calvin (and I'd say Paul, but I'm assuming you'd disagree) do you argue is a monster? Is it the double predestination part? How else do you square up an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good Creator who can't handle sin unpunished with the fact that there is sin, then? Do you try the Anglican dodge of single predestination? Or do you just say "the Bible doesn't tell us so we can't entirely know?" Or do you think you can make Arminian theology fit the Bible? Or do you just not think the Bible is authoritative, in which case I'm 100% sure we're just going to have to agree to disagree.[/quote]

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