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* poems on
predestination & free will * Dr. Lewis
Sperry
Chafer * Theology pages on this site *
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We are the Lord's elected few, Let all the rest be damned; There's room enough in Hell for you, We won't have Heaven crammed. ---author unknown |
Go to this A Defense
of Calvinism page
if you are persuaded -not coerced-
to read this debate between Kenny
Wolf and a Calvinist.
There is also a response letter from another Calvinist concerning the debate.
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(moderate Calvinists' showing us the "big" difference--a satire) Some of us were
predestined for
above,
Don't excuse
yourself, you've
no right to be mad,
Don't blaspheme God,
by questioning
what we moderates say,
---Kenneth J. Wolf (08/27/91) |
(see the end of letter #49, in Captured Thoughts, on the 5 points of Calvinism. 4 Point Calvinists consider themselves "moderates" because they reject the doctrine that Jesus Christ's atonement was Limited to those he had already chosen for heaven (the L in the 5 point TULIP--commonly known as the weak point). Moderate Calvinists believe Christ died for the sins of all sinners, not just for the sins of the chosen few (this is called unlimited atonement or unlimited redemption), but that it can only actually apply to the chosen few--thus the other 4 points of the TULIP stand.)
Other letters in Captured
Thoughts
dealing with predestination versus free will are:
Letter
#51 & Letter #60
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The following five stanzas were written for believers saved by grace through faith, who reject the doctrines of Calvinism.
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(Biblical truth of the Plan of salvation & free will as I believe it) We believe salvation
is presented
to all,
We believe man is
given genuine
free will,
We see predestination
and free
will as compatible,
God foreknows and
predestines,
the election of all believers is sure,
So lost sinners
headed for Hell,
don't foolishly reject His will,
---Kenneth J. Wolf (09/13/91) |
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The following eight stanzas illustrate how the conflict of Calvinist versus non-Calvinist doctrinal positions between Christians can be an ugly sight.
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(the Calvinists vs. the non-Calvinists) Did you hear about
the recent
baseball game?,
The Calvinist players
boasted
rather proudly,
As a witness to the
contest,
I hesitate to tell the story,
Before the game
began, I prayed
several times,
I saw many flaring
tempers and
heard many harsh tones,
"My theologian says
this",..."my
theologian says that",
Here I was sitting
with my several
unsaved guests,
Christian Theologians
are an
asset to the Church, we all agree,
---Kenneth J. Wolf (10/01/91) |
All of the stanzas on this page, except for the first, were written by Kenneth J. Wolf on August 27th, September 13th, and October 1st, 1991.
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This
is a picture of Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952), First President of
Dallas
Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas until his death. Somewhere around
November 1981, I read Dr. Chafer's book titled "Salvation". This led me
to read his entire 8 volume set of books titled "Systematic Theology".
It took a lot of discipline on my part to read through this very
detailed
coverage of every doctrinal area of theology. Completed in 1947,
Chafer's
Systematic Theology is both premillennial in it's Eschatology
(prophecy)
and Calvinist in it's Soteriology (doctrine of salvation)(See
letter
#51 on this site for more discussion on these doctrinal viewpoints).I
learned theology from this great Calvinist teacher who exemplified
grace
in his very life; including his written works and his teachings,
singing
and administrative work.
Dr.
Chafer led me to the writings of George N. H. (Nathaniel Henry) Peters,
who completed a 3 volume set of books in 1884, which went into an
in-depth
study of premillennial eschatology entitled "The Theocratic Kingdom".
Through
the writings and teachings of Dr. Chafer, I also discovered the works
and
ministry of John Nelson Darby, one of the leaders of the "Plymouth
Brethren"
movement out of Plymouth England. J. N. Darby was a strict 5 point
Calvinist.
All of these Calvinist men, and many others who influenced them and were influenced by them, had an understanding of God's grace toward us (giving us what we don't deserve--"salvation") and His mercy on us (not giving us what we do deserve--"damnation"). They were Calvinists and I learned much from them and appreciate their diligent and systematic work in the study of the Bible.
But, although I tried, I could not reconcile a just God and the strict 5 point TULIP SYSTEM of Calvinism or predestination as understood by Calvinists (also referred to as "determinism") where-by some are chosen for Heaven, while the rest are predestined for Hell! The poems on this page show, in essence, what they believe and how I believe about what is known as the doctrine of divine decrees.
Thank God for men in the church like Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer.
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