While in Missouri in August, during our costume photo shoot at Julie's, I got to wear the beautiful dress her mom made. It's a replica of the "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" dress that Christine wears in the stage version of "The Phantom of the Opera."
Sometimes it seemed, if I just dreamed, somehow you would be here...
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Wow! Take a deep breath now, relax.
Falcon
a friend of mine wrote this on predestination. I thought you might appreciate it.
Theology: So I've been thinking about the Atonement lately. According to Calvinism, Christ died for a specific group of people (the elect) and has actually secured their salvation and forgiveness of all of their sins (past, present, and future) on the cross although it's not appropriated until the determined time in history. All those for whom Christ died will be saved (John 10)
According to John Sanders' brand of open theism, the cross wasn't "planned" until the very last minute (according to him, Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane shows that the cross wasn't foreordained). Now remember, God doesn't exhaustively foreknow the future. Therefore, God never knew that you or I would exist until we were actually born. Taking it a step further, he doesn't know the sins we will commit until we actually perform them. So for John Sanders' open theism, we have an unplanned cruxificion where Jesus dies for people He doesn't know is going to exist and for their sins that He doesn't know they are going to commit. So what does Jesus actually accomplish on the Cross? THE POSSIBILITY OF SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE PERHAPS RELYING UPON JESUS' ATONEMENT FOR THEIR SALVATION!! I see this as being only slightly different than the traditional Arminian view of the Atonement--Jesus died to make all men savable and through His foreknowledge He knows who will actually believe upon Christ for salvation (notice that this makes faith an act of man FIRST before they are included in the elect). So with the Open Theist we have the theoretical possibility that nobody will believe on Christ and thusly His blood will be wasted and we have Jesus dying for some unknown amorphous blob of people. With Arminianism, we have Jesus dying for all men but we know (and Jesus knows) that not everyone will be saved so Jesus has wasted blood on the cross as well since He foreknows who will exercise their free will to believe on Him but He goes ahead and dies for the rest anyway (so in reality hell becomes a double punishment for their sin).
With Calvinism, Jesus ACTUALLY ACOMPLISHES AND PROCURES AN INFALLIABLE AND IRRESISTABLE SALVATION. With Calvinism, there is no wasted blood. Jesus accomplishes 100% of that which He set out to accomplish.
Chris
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You meet a person for a weekend and then decide to get engaged? You may be right but slow down a little and watch for turns in the road. Positive thinking will get you in a lot more jams than being negative.
In case anyone took that seriously, I am not engaged. Trust me people, when I am, you will know it.
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