Dark Journey

I had a very bad week in many ways. Terrible, enduring fever and lots of physical stress.  I am stating this up front so that those who may dislike my thoughts more thoroughly than usual will be able to establish a causal connection to something dark or less than lucid.  (Those who like my views...thanks!)

Meanwhile, I was led by a brilliant mind to examine what I would call a Biblical/Psychological analysis of Calvinists.  I came away with some interesting observations but am not sure I care to explore near there again.

Suffice it to say that you Calvinists have a queer sort of misogynism. Spending time with Augustine in being shocked that there are women in heaven..."well, maybe they can drop by now and then."

Join the women at the foot of the cross!

My Favorite from George MacDonald

The Office of Christ  (from George MacDonald: an anthology  ed. C.S. Lewis)

"Never could we have known the heart of the Father, never felt it possible to love Him as sons, but for Him who cast Himself into the gulf that yawned between us.  In and through Him we were foreordained to the sonship: sonship, even had we never sinned, never could we reach without Him.  We should have been little children loving the Father indeed, but far from the sonship that understands and adores."

Paul:

"Yet, my brothers, I do not consider myself to have "arrived," spiritually, nor do I consider myself already perfect.  But I keep going on, grasping ever more firmly that purpose for which Christ grasped me.  My brothers, I do not consider to have fully grasped it even now.  But I do concentrate on this: I leave the past behind and with hands outstretched to whatever lies ahead I go straight for the goal -- my reward the honor of being called by God in Christ." Philippians 3:12-14

You Calvinists would be wise to listen to Paul.  Your notions of predestination lie in the past, a remote past that can provide for you no certification.  Turn your back on that past and turn your eyes on the cross, the ever present point of contact with God through Jesus.

By the way. In case you are feeling smug in your Augustinian pride of knowledge... Notice that Paul is talking of "Christ."  God does not, Himself, fulfill the office of Christ until He has made Himself available in time and established the victory of the cross.  You Calvinists are in the same boat with the rest of us sinners...predestined in Christ is available at the cross.

Come to the cross.