On the first one, me giving my honest opinions about someone's theology is not slander, but something *you* disagree with. We can have that conversation if you'd like, and I'd find that enjoyable! But bear in mind I'm in good company, as even ol' Jean himself worried about the implications of his own theology in a similar way:
“How it was ordained by the foreknowledge and decree of God what man’s future was without God being implicated as associate in the fault as the author or approver of transgression, is clearly a secret so much excelling the insight of the human mind, that I am not ashamed to confess ignorance…. I daily so meditate on these mysteries of his judgments that curiosity to know anything more does not attract me.”
-John Calvin, Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God, 124 (OC 8.316)
As for my discussions concerning gnosticism, I've never made the accusation that the reformed/baptists were reading gnostic texts and then influenced by them. I hold that augustine, having *formerly been a manichean* had these influences in his theology, which is then passed down through much of the augustinian-influenced theologians.
Before you accuse me of slander on something, why not just ask instead? Or maybe tell me I've missed something? If it boils down to disagreement in interpretations, we can cross that bridge when we get there, but I'm honestly not trying to be malicious here.
SuperLutheran
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