{"id":4980,"date":"2009-11-23T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/11\/calvinist-trvth\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T17:44:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:44:27","slug":"calvinist-trvth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/11\/calvinist-trvth.html","title":{"rendered":"Calvinist TRVTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Oh, those wacky Calvinists.  Here\u2019s some enthuasiast for the Diagrams Over Real Life Approach to Christianity asking the musical question, <a href=\"http:\/\/reformedevangelist.com\/?p=1405\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWas Jesus a Calvinist?\u201d<\/a> (because Jesus would totally have benefited from Calvin\u2019s superior diagrams of the gospel).<\/p>\n<p>(Hint: only a crazy Catholic would ever say, \u201cWas Jesus a Thomist?\u201d  He can\u2019t be wholly contained in human systems of philosphy or theology, dude.  Jesus was no more a Calvinist than he was a Whig, a Thomist, or a Platonist.  He is himself\u2013the Truth\u2013and all our little systems of order are attempts to approximate him, not containers which can encompass the Infinite Majesty.  It is the mark of the madness of Calvinism that it would try to enlist the Son of God as a sort of partisan of the cramped spiritual theorizing of Calvin.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of weird partisanship, here\u2019s yet another Calvinist <a href=\"http:\/\/turretinfan.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/is-roman-catholicism-force-for-good-in.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sitting in the peanut gallery and cheering on the atheists <\/a>because they happen to be quarreling with Catholics. Better that God be blasphemed than that any slight pettiness of the 16th Century quarrel be abandoned for one second.  We must have our priorities!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, those wacky Calvinists. Here\u2019s some enthuasiast for the Diagrams Over Real Life Approach to Christianity asking the musical question, \u201cWas Jesus a Calvinist?\u201d (because Jesus would totally have benefited from Calvin\u2019s superior diagrams of the gospel). (Hint: only a crazy Catholic would ever say, \u201cWas Jesus a Thomist?\u201d He can\u2019t be wholly contained in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Calvinist TRVTH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oh, those wacky Calvinists. 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