Saturday, June 05, 2004

Wrestling with the TULIP

Today I am looking at the baptism of John and the TULIP of the Calvinists. These verses seem problematic to the Calvinistic position with respect to the I in the TULIP:
Luke 7:29-30 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
If the Calvinists are right and God can't be resisted then how could the Pharisees and lawyers reject God's counsel? The Calvinists divide the will of God into a moral and a decreative will. The moral will includes commandments which may or may not be done. The decreative will is the things which will happen. Yet this passage describes salvation so it can't be said to be in the moral category but in the decreative category.
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1 comment:

Lockheed said...

People reject the council of God all the time, Calvinism doesn't state otherwise. The fact of the matter is that irregardless of that, His council stands.

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