Glen+:

Thanks!

Bill+
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From: <GMSpencer@...>
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: FW: [FaithandLife] the meaning of the new birth



In a message dated 7/29/05 4:20:31 PM, wperkin2@... writes:


> Remember Christ's parables of wheat and tares, good fruit vs. bad fruit,
> false prophets and that not all that call Him "Lord, Lord" will enter the
> kingdom of God. Those parables were spoken to the religious people of His
> day in covenant with God not to lost sinners who were not Jews and not in
> covenant with God.
>

Thanks Bill!
I recall how, years ago, I used to twist these very verses because they did
not fit the system I believed in. Calvinism, in my opinion, is a Procrustean
Bed. Procrustius was an innkeeper who has an iron bed he made available to
travelers. The problem was that his guests were either too short or too long 
to
sleep comfortably. But Procrustius was an easy answer to the problem. If the
guests were to short he simply stretched him out till he fit. If the guest 
was too
long he simply chopped off enough of him till he fit. Most "systems" are
Procrustean Beds that require violence to scripture to make it fit the logic 
of
the system.
Glenn+

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