I've been thinking about what Dr. Brunner said about hospital rooms and pastoral care, namely, that this is not the time to get into theological explanations about God's sovereignty, and that all they need to hear is that "God is in control." This seems to be inextricably connected to Calvin's idea that everything that happens is "caused" by God and that it's all for his "glory." I have major problems with both of these, but I thought that Matthis brought up a really good point in class concerning how it might just bring MORE glory to God to allow genuine free will and its by-product of genuine love. As you may know, I am NOT a fan of Calvin, but I thought I'd throw out an invitation for further discussion.
-Corb
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Heaven forbid we actually have an on-line discussion that people are actually interested in. You can't say I didn't try.
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