http://oldlife.org/2014/05/lutheran-will-lead/
... I for one don’t think that Double T (though I haven’t read much) captures the precariousness of our Christian lives. Simply to say everything is forgiven (if that is what Double T suggests) doesn’t wrestle with gravity of sin and its penalty, the idea that my sins sent Christ to the cross. But neither do the “obedience boys,” as Bill Smith calls them, capture this precariousness, that even the best of what we do is inferior to God’s righteous standard and comes mixed with a host of selfish and confused motives.
So perhaps the way forward is to read more Lutheran ethics — not the oxymoron that some experimental Calvinists think it is.
If the reader doesn't understand what Double T means this blog post isn't for you, dear reader. :)
Because this one's going to be even worse for esoteric humor:
http://oldlife.org/2014/06/whose-calvinism-presbyterianism/
... Let Scottish Presbyterians be Scottish Presbyterians. But why Calvinism is responsible for this social outlook when we on the other side of the Atlantic regularly hear about Calvinism’s market friendly and individualistic ways, I don’t understand. Could it be that Calvinism is just as plastic as evangelicalism? The seer sees what she wants to see.
Of course over on this side of the Atlantic Calvinism has also caused every evil an Arminian Baptist couldn't even fully imagine but some of these so-called Calvinists are Amyraldians who decided to crash the truly Reformed party, perhaps?
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Hart's book on the history of American Presbyterianism is very interesting. The New Light influence is striking.
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