Bono I see you are bringing up more of that Calvinist T.U.L.I.P. garbage again.
The only modern day "preacher" I can think of who advocates that crap is Fred Phelps.
The Calvinist Church advocates it.
There is no "Calvinist Church". Presbyterianism supposedly contains it, but PCUSA is a very mainline denomination that doesn't talk about it at all.
Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Seven Day Adventists, Christian Missionary Aliance (umm...) People, and other groups are all Calvinists.
Methodsits are Calvinists?
There has always been a great antagonism between Wesleyans and Calvinists, because Wesley was a great supporter of Arminism.
Wesley was largelyt inspired by Calvin. Compare their writtings. They are almost identical.
Hey, don't you go comparing my demonination to Calvinism. Bono's theological leanings give me the heebie-jeebies
(for instance, the only thing keeping him from going on a gun rampage on a store to purse the non-believers is that he doesn't know if there are any believers in teh store
)
Anyway, if the Rapture
does happen like 'they' say it's going to, well, then why not become a Total Mega Christian? Their interpretation of the Bible has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, so there would be no reason not to believe what they believe
Anyway, I think people are saved primarly by works, because it seems awful unfair to be sentencing Buddhist monks to hell when they're probably a good deal more...good...than anyone who has posted in this thread.
