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free will and free will offering

God has a sense of humor. God has sent one into my life who is the prototype of a zealot, and everything that eerks me in fundamentalism. This one believes that God gives them "special insight" into the Bible (i.e. God showed me this truth). This one approached me to "ask" what I thought about Calvinism. (Apparently there is a rising group of heretic calvanists in our church. Really what is meant is that this one is finding out that there are calvanists amongst us and that displeases the person greatly. They are "heretics" because they do not believe what this one believes, and since God "shows" all things to this person there is no error!) I began to talk, because I was asked my opinion, but immediately I was interrupted. I could see that this one really came to talk rather than listen to my opinion. I was even informed by this one that part of the goal was to make sure I was not a heretic, and if I was they wanted to know so they could pray for me. Hilarious. Nonetheless, we came to "free will" and I asked if this person believed in free will. I received an affirmative reply. The reason: the free will offering in the bible. If they didn't have a free will then surely they could not offer a "free will" offering! How do begin to talk to a person who thinks like this? Apparently Moses was talking about the nature of our will and not the condition under which the offering was given. Aye-yi-yi. I cannot believe John Calvin did not think about that!! Those Presbyterians are so ignorant. I know, Presbyterians probably don't read the Bible!

[sigh...........}

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