shackleton
Puritan Board Junior
My wife's best friend just married a Lutheran pastor and so we have been spending a fair amount of time with them. Lutheran theology is right on as far as justification and salvation but seem to be arminian when it comes to how one is saved, (all the behind the scene stuff that Pres. and reformed people delve into). They share the same views as all arminians in that God looks down through time and sees what is going to happen and agrees with that. Election is based on foreknowledge, the only predestination they agree with is single, God does not predetermine people to go to hell, everyone has a chance. Salvation can be lost, grace is resistible, it is effectual for everyone, salvation is determined by who decides to believe. God does not force himself on anyone.
They say outright that they do not like Calvin and his "determinism," they are not real big on God's sovereignty and their answer for hard questions seems to be "It is all a great mystery!" I was assuming they were all like Rod Rosenblatt on the White Horse Inn, but they are not.
Any thoughts?
They say outright that they do not like Calvin and his "determinism," they are not real big on God's sovereignty and their answer for hard questions seems to be "It is all a great mystery!" I was assuming they were all like Rod Rosenblatt on the White Horse Inn, but they are not.
Any thoughts?